David's Story
Stig Dalager author Cheryl Robson translator Frances Osterfelt translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Aurora Metro Publications
Published:1st Apr '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Separated from his parents who are deported by the Nazis, David struggles to survive, alone, hungry and scared, until he eventually finds his way to the city of Warsaw. There he learns from other Jewish boys how to work in the black market, dodging the police and the Gestapo until the eventual day comes when the ghetto is cleared and everyone is herded into trains for the long trip to the camps. Will David survive? Can he outwit them one more time? Shortlisted for The Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation.
“How was it possible for Stig Dalager to write about the last years of the story of David in such a shocking and convincing way that one should think that this was written by Isaac B. Singer or one of the other Polish-Jewish geniuses?” Jewish Information Magazine “Dalager has written a shockingly relevant historical novel, a taut story of international standing and appeal. A monument to our own shame, at that time and now.” Politiken Newspaper, Denmark
- Short-listed for Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation 2011 (UK)
ISBN: 9781906582043
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304 pages