De poppenspeler van Warschau
Aangrijpende roman over heldenmoed en de verschrikkingen van de oorlog
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I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us... Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes that hope comes in the form of a small boy, armed with a troupe of puppets - a prince, a girl, a fool, a crocodile with half-painted teeth.... When Mika's grandfather dies in the Warsaw ghetto, he inherits not only his great coat, but its treasure trove of secrets. In one remote pocket, he finds a papier mache head, a scrap of cloth...the prince. And what better way to cheer the cousin who has lost her father, the little boy who his ill, the neighbours living in one cramped room, than a puppet show? Soon the whole ghetto is talking about the puppet boy - until the day when Mika is stopped by a German officer and is forced into a secret life... This is a story about survival. It is an epic journey, spanning continents and generations, from Warsaw to the gulags of Siberia, and two lives that intertwine amid the chaos of war. Because even in wartime, there is hope...
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De poppenspeler van Warschau, Eva Weaver
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- Released
- 2013
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- Subtitle
- Aangrijpende roman over heldenmoed en de verschrikkingen van de oorlog
- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Eva Weaver
- Publisher
- The House of Books
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 9044360965
- ISBN13
- 9789044360967
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Theater, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, Children, English Literature, Jews, Holocaust, Hope, Poland, Guilt, Persecution of Jews, Siberia, Gulags, Warsaw, Ghetto, Puppet Theatre, Jewish Ghettos
- First published
- 2013
- Original title
- The Puppet Boy of Warszaw
- Rating
- 4.45 out of 5
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- I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us... Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes that hope comes in the form of a small boy, armed with a troupe of puppets - a prince, a girl, a fool, a crocodile with half-painted teeth.... When Mika's grandfather dies in the Warsaw ghetto, he inherits not only his great coat, but its treasure trove of secrets. In one remote pocket, he finds a papier mache head, a scrap of cloth...the prince. And what better way to cheer the cousin who has lost her father, the little boy who his ill, the neighbours living in one cramped room, than a puppet show? Soon the whole ghetto is talking about the puppet boy - until the day when Mika is stopped by a German officer and is forced into a secret life... This is a story about survival. It is an epic journey, spanning continents and generations, from Warsaw to the gulags of Siberia, and two lives that intertwine amid the chaos of war. Because even in wartime, there is hope...