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The orphan's tale : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The orphan's tale : a novel / Pam Jenoff.

Jenoff, Pam, (author.).

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780778330639
  • Physical Description: 344 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario : Mira, 2017.
Subject: Circus > Fiction.
Teenage mothers > Fiction.
Jews > Germany > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Fiction.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

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  • 20 of 22 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.

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