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The daughter's tale : a novel / Armando Lucas Correa ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Berlin, 1939: recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing Nazi Germany with her two young daughters, heading towards unoccupied France. She arrives in Haute-Vienne with only one of her girls. Their freedom is short-lived and soon they are taken to a labour camp. New York City, 2015: Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call from a woman bearing messages - letters written to Elise from her mother, unravelling more than seven decades of secrets.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501187933,9781501187940
- Physical Description: 303 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Atria Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Spanish edition published in 2019 by Atria Español as La hija olvidada."--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Letters > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 14 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Fort Nelson Public Library | FIC COR (Text) | 35246000978195 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF COR (Text) | 35198000678954 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC COR (Text) | 35146002141786 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Chetwynd Public Library | FIC COR (Text) | 35222001025310 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC COR (Text)
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35140100049876 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Elkford Public Library | FC COR (Text) | 35170000433029 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Houston Public Library | F COR (Text) | 35150001729542 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Invermere Public Library | FIC COR (Text) | IPL057911 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Cor (Text) | 32665002193003 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F COR (Text) | 3514830030790 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A tale of love and redemption based on the 1944 Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre follows an octogenarian's receipt of a cache of letters, written by her mother during World War II, that uncover decades of secrets. 150,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
A tale of love and redemption based on the 1944 Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre follows an octogenarian's receipt of a cache of letters, written by her mother during World War II, that uncover decades of secrets. - Simon and Schuster
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'[B]reathtakingly threaded together from start to finish with the sound of a beating heart.' 'The New York Times
'searing.' 'People
'Immersive, both heartbreaking and redemptive, steeped in harrowing historical events and heroic acts of compassion that will have you reflecting on the best and worst the human heart has to offer.' 'Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours
From the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl, an unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children'perfect for fans of Lilac Girls, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Alice Network.
BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband's has agreed to take her in. Along the way, a refugee ship headed for Cuba offers another chance at escape and there, at the dock, Amanda is forced to make an impossible choice that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Once in Haute-Vienne, her brief respite is interrupted by the arrival of Nazi forces, and Amanda finds herself in a labor camp where she must once again make a heroic sacrifice.
NEW YORK, 2015. Eighty-year-old Elise Duval receives a call from a woman bearing messages from a time and country that she forced herself to forget. A French Catholic who arrived in New York after World War II, Elise is shocked to discover that the letters were from her mother, written in German during the war. Despite Elise's best efforts to stave off her past, seven decades of secrets begin to unravel.
Based on true events, The Daughter's Tale chronicles one of the most harrowing atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during the war. Heartbreaking and immersive, it is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival, and redemption.
