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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

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For readers of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and SCHINDLER'S LIST, FAR TO GO is a powerful, mesmerising novel centring on... Read more

    Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 02/02/2012
    ISBN13: 9780755379439, 978-0755379439
    ISBN10: 0755379438

    Number of Pages: 352

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    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

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