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Now an animated film titled "Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart." Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction, FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family's epic journey to flee Lookaway, Lookaway ebook pdf the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. When the family try to flee without her to Paris, Marta betrays them to her Nazi boyfriend. But it is through Marta's determination that Pepik secures a place on a Kindertransport, though he never sees his parents or Marta again. Inspired by Alison Pick's own grandparents who fled their native Czechoslovakia for Canada during the Second World War, FAR TO GO is a deeply personal and emotionally harrowing novel.

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Author: Wilton Barnhardt
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Published Date: 20 Aug 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781250020833
Download Link: Click Here
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