1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past.
Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience.
However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.
Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, he explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt.
Autor |
John Boyne |
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Vydavateľ |
Doubleday |
Jazyk | anglický |
Väzba | mäkká |
Počet strán | 416 |
Formát | 234 x 153 |
EAN | 9780857528865 |
Rok vydania | 2022 |
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