Far To Go - Alison Pick ( Our Favorite February ) ( Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2011 )

'Mamenka and I send you a hug and a snuggle.
We look at your photograph every day and pray
to God for your safekeeping...'

Czechoslovakia, 1939.

Pavel and Anneliese Bauer dote on their six-year-old son, Pepik, and enjoy a life of demestic comfort. But as rumours of the Nazi threat, and then German troops, reach the Sudetenland, this charmed existence is turned on its head: for all that the Bauers barely consider themselves Jewish, their lives are now in danger.

Far To Go plunges us into the hearts of a family fleeing for their lives, and offered a desperate chance to save their child. Above all, it is a story about love, the painful choices it demands of us, and the way it endures.

ISBN: 9780755379439
Prijs: € 9.95