Cut Out Girl
«Astonishing. Van Es has created a masterpiece of history and memoir, concluding on a note of reconciliation, hope and great love »
Evening Standard
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780241978726
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Astonishing. Van Es has created a masterpiece of history and memoir, concluding on a note of reconciliation, hope and great love »
Evening Standard
«An extraordinary, harrowing story of loss, survival and love»
Guardian
«Brought to life with family photographs and diary entries that add further impact to Lien's harrowing memories and testimony - this deeply affecting and fascinating story is guaranteed to haunt you»
Sunday Mirror
«An awe-inspiring account of the tragedies and triumphs within the world of the Holocaust's "hide-away" children, and of the families who sheltered them»
Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones
«The Cut Out Girl is a reminder of the extraordinary richness of archives and the treasures released by scholarly research»
TLS
«An extraordinary story, harrowing, deeply affecting. This fascinating story is guaranteed to haunt you»
People
«A moving story of personal and family history, with a scholar's objective eye for the bigger picture.»
Irish Times
«Harrowing . . . profoundly moving»
Daily Express
«Remarkable - the story of one traumatic childhood, deeply moving, and told with great dexterity, allowing the wisdoms of today to run parallel with the absorbing narrative of wartime events»
Penelope Lively
«Compassionate and thoughtfully rendered, the book is both a memorable portrait of a remarkable woman and a testament to the healing power of understanding. A complex and uplifting tale»
Kirkus
«A nuanced, moving, and unusual "hidden child" account»
Publishers Weekly
«Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting»
The Times Book of the Week
«Deeply moving, this is a remarkable memoir»
Sunday Times
«Fascinating, beautifully written. Van Es carefully salvages Lien's story and creates a deeply moving and complex book about war, atrocity and human suffering»
The Oldie
«Sensational and gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time»
Judges of the Costa Book of the Year Prize 2018
«Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through»
Philippe Sands, Author of East West Street
«Harrowing and beautiful»
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