The book of dirt
(Book)
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Published
Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, [2017].
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf
FICTION PRESSE 2017
1 available
FICTION PRESSE 2017
1 available
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Holocaust Shelf | FICTION PRESSE 2017 | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographical fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- Biography -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Biography -- Fiction.
Jewish families -- Fiction.
Jews -- Europe -- Biography -- Fiction.
Jews -- Europe -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- Biography -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Biography -- Fiction.
Jewish families -- Fiction.
Jews -- Europe -- Biography -- Fiction.
Jews -- Europe -- Fiction.
Jews -- Fiction.
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- Fiction.
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Published
Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, [2017].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Description
"The Book of Dirt is a love story, a riveting survivors' tale, and a grandson's quest to learn about his grandparents' extraordinary lives. The author's family built myths around them- Jakub was a teacher in the camps, keeping the children busy until it was their turn to be killed; Dasa laid the railway sleepers on the tracks that brought her fellow Jews to their deaths. When they died, their stories went with them. Then came the cracks. Everything the author thought he knew was wrong. In this story of two unlikely survivors, Bram Presser brilliantly imagines the fate of Jakub, deported to Auschwitz and to Theresienstadt, where it was rumoured after the war that he had sorted through thousands of Jewish texts confiscated for a so-called Nazi Museum of the Extinct Race. The Book of Dirt is also the story of Frantiska, her fraught marriage in Prague, and how she and her two eldest daughters, Dasa and Irena, miraculously survived the camps. The Book of Dirt is a completely original, page-turning novel about family myths and Jewish myths. And it is a heart-warming story about a grandson's devotion to the power of writing, storytelling and his family's legacy."--,Provided by Amazon.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Presser, B. (2017). The book of dirt . Text Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Presser, Bram, 1976-. 2017. The Book of Dirt. Text Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Presser, Bram, 1976-. The Book of Dirt Text Publishing, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Presser, Bram. The Book of Dirt Text Publishing, 2017.
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