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The Cut Out Girl

A Story Of War And Family, Lost And Found

by Bart Van Es
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, January of 2019 ‧
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Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.

His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.

«Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through»
Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

«Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement»
Guardian

«A masterpiece of history and memoir»
Evening Standard

«Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting»
The Times

The Cut Out Girl

A Story Of War And Family, Lost And Found

by Bart Van Es

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241978726
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: January of 2019
Language: English
Dimensions: 127 x 195 x 18 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Others
EAN: 9780241978726

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bart Van Es

Bart van Es é professor de Literatura Inglesa no St. Catherine’s College, da Universidade de Oxford. É autor de vários livros sobre William Shakespeare.
Tem também publicado artigos sobre historiografia da Renascença e poesia pastoral. Nasceu na Holanda e vive agora com a família em Inglaterra.

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