EAN: 9780857528865

ALL THE BROKEN PLACES - JOHN BOYNE KARTONIERT (TB)

When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a
maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional
impact of this powerful novel' John Irving 'Exceptional  layered and compelling...This books
moves like a freight train  with force and consequence for the reader' Amy Bloom From the
author of the globally bestselling  multi-million-copy classic  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the
same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable  quiet life  despite her dark
and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before.
She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all  she doesn't
talk about her father  the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
Then  a young 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 violent argument between Henry's mother and his
domineering father  one that threatens Gretel's hard-won  self-contained existence. Gretel is
faced with a chance to expiate her guilt  grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for
the second time in her life. But to do so  she will be forced to reveal her true identity to
the world. Will she make a different choice this time  whatever the cost to herself? All the
Broken Places is a devastating  beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her
past and a present in which it is never too late for bravery.

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