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Author Presser, Bram, 1976- author.

Title The book of dirt / Bram Presser.

Publication Info. Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  PRESSER, BRAM    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC PRESSER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F PRESSER, BRAM    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F PRESSER BRAM    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-PRESSER    Check Shelf
Description 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary 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.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
Jews -- Europe -- Fiction.
Jewish families -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.
Holocaust survivors. (OCoLC)fst00958838
Jewish families. (OCoLC)fst00982765
Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 1925240266 (paperback)
9781925240269 (paperback)
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