The Book of Dirt / Bram Presser
- Bib ID:
- 8052924
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Presser, Bram, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017
- ©2017
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781922253071 (EPUB eBook : :)
- Summary:
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'An immense work of love and anger, a book Bram Presser was born to write.' Joan London They chose not to speak and now they are gone...What's left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend. Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is forced to sort through Jewish books for a so-called Museum of the Extinct Race. Hidden among the rare texts is a tattered prayer book, hollow inside, containing a small pile of dirt. Back in the city, Františka Roubíčková picks over the embers of her failed marriage, despairing of her conversion to Judaism. When the Nazis summon her two eldest daughters for transport, she must sacrifice everything to save the girls from certain death. Decades later, Bram Presser embarks on a quest to find the truth behind the stories his family built around these remarkable survivors. The Book of Dirt is a completely original novel about love, family secrets, and Jewish myths. And it is a heart-warming story about a grandson's devotion to the power of storytelling and his family's legacy.
- Notes:
- General.
- Subject:
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- Biographical 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
- Fiction - General
- Fiction / Jewish
- Fiction: general & literary
- Holocaust survivors
- Jewish families
- Jews
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Europe
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Text Publishing
- Also Titled:
- Book of dirt : a novel
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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