Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Canterbury-Bankstown Library Service . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

.

We were the lucky ones / Georgia Hunter.

We were the lucky ones / Georgia Hunter.
.
Item Information
Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date
AF HUNT
 Adult Fiction   Bankstown . . On Loan . 29 Oct 2024
Reserve any copy Click Here Catalogue Record 1092102
. Catalogue Record 1092102 ItemInfo . Catalogue Record 1092102 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 9780749021566 (paperback)
074902156X (paperback)
Name Hunter, Georgia, 1978- author.
Title We were the lucky ones / Georgia Hunter.
Edition First edition.
Published London : Allison & Busby, 2017.
©2017
Description 413 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five Kurc siblings do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom. Addy, a musician, charms his way into possession of a Brazilian visa and into the first class piano lounge on a ship full of refugees bound for Rio; Jakob marries the love of his life in an abandoned house to a soundtrack of air sirens; Mila hides her daughter in a Catholic convent outside of Warsaw, only to return weeks later to find the convent in ruins; Genek endures a brutal winter in a Siberian gulag before embarking with his wife and newborn son on a year-long exodus through Persia to fight for the Allies; and Halina attempts to flee over the Austrian Alps on foot - while pregnant. All this, across continents and often in ignorance as to the fate of the rest of their family, while the wheels of war turn. We Were the Lucky Ones is a profoundly moving and memorable novel based on the author's family experiences.
Subjects Holocaust survivors -- Fiction
Jews, Polish -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Poland -- Fiction
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Jewish fiction
Genre Biographical fiction
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
See Also:
Authors:
.
Related Searches Catalogue Record 1092102
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 1092102
.
Catalogue Information 1092102 . Catalogue Information 1092102 Top of page .
Quick Search