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Book SynopsisThe
New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Trade Review"A lovely story about the Holocaust might seem like a grotesque oxymoron. But in
The Zookeeper’s Wife, Diane Ackerman proves otherwise. Here is a true story—of human empathy and its opposite—that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful. Ackerman has a wonderful tale to tell, and she tells it wonderfully." -- Washington Post Book World
"A poignant and absorbing book." -- New York Times Book Review
"I can’t imagine a better story or storyteller.
The Zookeeper’s Wife will touch every nerve you have." -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
"A fresh and compelling addition to Holocaust literature." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A stunning tale of war and sanctuary [that is] perceptive, knowledgeable and rhapsodic.… How incisively and damningly Ackerman dissects the Nazis’ perverted view of nature.… A shining book beyond category.… It is no stretch to say that this is the book Ackerman was meant to write." -- Los Angeles Times
"Author Diane Ackerman offers us
The Zookeeper’s Wife, a tale of untold bravery with a whimsical dose of history reminiscent of Noah’s Ark.… Ackerman’s story is a treatise on nobility—a word that applies to some humans and all the animals in
The Zookeeper’s Wife." -- USA Today
"Diane Ackerman has surpassed even herself in her latest book, which is alternatingly funny, moving, and terrifying. This powerful thriller would be a great novel—except that it happens to be true." -- Jared Diamond, author of Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel
