Far to Go
Published on 2. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-7553-7943-9 (ISBN)
Description
For readers of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and SCHINDLER'S LIST, FAR TO GO is a powerful, mesmerising novel centring on one family's heartbreaking decision to save their son - by saying goodbye to him for ever.
Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction
'Extraordinary' Daily Mail
'A potential classic in the making' Financial Times
Pepik is only six when the German forces invade Czechoslovakia. Desperate to find freedom, his affluent Jewish parents try to escape with him to Paris, but are betrayed by Marta, the family's beloved nanny. Yet it is Marta who then secures a place for the Pepik on a Kindertransport, an act of determination that saves his life. But the child is never to see his parents or Marta again.
'Somewhere between a book and a miracle' Catherine Ryan Hyde
Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction
'Extraordinary' Daily Mail
'A potential classic in the making' Financial Times
Pepik is only six when the German forces invade Czechoslovakia. Desperate to find freedom, his affluent Jewish parents try to escape with him to Paris, but are betrayed by Marta, the family's beloved nanny. Yet it is Marta who then secures a place for the Pepik on a Kindertransport, an act of determination that saves his life. But the child is never to see his parents or Marta again.
'Somewhere between a book and a miracle' Catherine Ryan Hyde
Reviews / Votes
'A potential classic in the making' * <I> Financial Times </I> * 'Extraordinary' * <I> Daily Mail </I> * 'Clean, crisp and unencumbered' * <I> Globe and Mail </I> * 'Somewhere between a book and a miracle' * Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of <I> Love in the Present Tense </I> * 'A nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal . . . An intriguing experiment in the art of storytelling' * <I> Montreal Gazette </I> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7553-7943-9 (9780755379439)
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Person
Alison Pick is the author of FAR TO GO, longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction; and a memoir, BETWEEN GODS, which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, and a novel, THE SWEET EDGE, all of which were published to wide acclaim. She lives in Toronto, Canada.