Book
All the broken places
Record details
- ISBN: 0593653068
- ISBN: 9780593653067
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Physical Description:
387 pages ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First published in Great Britain in 2022 by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Ltd., London, in 2022. "New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" --cover. |
| Summary, etc.: | An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. Then, a new 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 disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence. All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before--whatever the cost to herself.... |
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| Subject: | Older women England London Fiction Children of Nazis Fiction Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Germany Fiction |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 10 of 36 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 4 current holds with 36 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Beardsley Branch - Bridgeport | FIC BOYNE (Text) | 34000144241981 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 06/20/2024 |
| Beardsley Branch - Bridgeport | FIC BOYNE (Text) | 34000151380037 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/01/2024 |
| Bethel Public Library | BOYNE (STRIPED PAJAMAS 2) (Text) | 34030147228974 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 06/20/2024 |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF BOY (Text) | 33260000596735 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/08/2024 |
| Brookfield Library | F/BOYNE (Text) | 34029154493927 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 06/20/2024 |
| Derby Neck Library | FIC BOY (Text) | 34046152829662 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC BOYNE,J (Text) | 34026152467291 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck | FIC BOYNE, JOHN (Text) | 34027151109637 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/24/2024 |
| Janet Carlson Calvert Library - Franklin | F BOY (Text) | 33345000346973 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| John P. Webster Library - West Hartford | PR 6102.O96 A77 2022 (Text) | 30401147775583 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
