Kindergarten (Nonpareil Book, 49)

Rushforth, Peter

ISBN 10: 0879237015 / ISBN 13: 9780879237011

Published by David R. Godine, Publisher, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kindergarten (Nonpareil Book, 49)
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879237015
• ISBN 13: 9780879237011
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In a moving retelling of Hansel and Gretel, a woman is murdered during a terrorist attack, leaving her three sons in the care of their grandmother, Lilli. As the four prepare to celebrate Christmas without her, Lilli is drawn into a lonely world of memories, forced to confront the horrors of the Nazi persecution she managed to survive. After losing her entire family in the Holocaust, Lilli finds that it is this final death―that of her daughter―that allows her to reach out to the next generation and, with them, forge a unique path toward peace and reconciliation.

From the Publisher

"...a brilliant book...very real and terribly distressing." – A.S. Byatt

"This quite extraordinary book has the intense, deeply focused power of cultural meditation, on certain themes of suffering, of childhood and family, triumphant in this almost unbearable world." – New York Times Book Review