All the broken places.
All the broken places.
By
:
Boyne, John, 1971-
Publication Date
:
2022
Volume
:
bk. 2
Subject Term
:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Redemption -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Series
:
BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS ;
Summary
:
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence. All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before -- whatever the cost to herself.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780385688055
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Copy |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC BOY | bk. 2 |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC BOY | bk. 2 |