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“I wish this were a happy story. A story to make you doubt, and despair, and then have your hopes redeemed so you could believe again, at the last minute, in the essential goodness of the world around us and the people in it.” So begins the mysterious present-day narrator and the compelling saga that takes us deep inside the world of one Jewish family during the lead-up to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. Pepik manages to secure a place on a Kindertransport, but he never sees his parents or Marta again. And it is through the fascinating present-day strand in the story that the unexpected fates of each of the Bauers is slowly revealed. Inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Picks own grandparents embarked upon from their native Czechoslovakia to Canada during the Second World War, Far to Go is an epic historical novel that traces one familys journey through these tumultuous and traumatic events. A layered, beautifully written, moving, and suspenseful story by one of our rising literary stars. |
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