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100 1  Presser, Bram,|d1976-|eauthor. 
245 14 The book of dirt /|cBram Presser. 
264  1 Melbourne,  Australia :|bText Publishing,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    303 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    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. 
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655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
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