Far To Go Alison Pick by Alison Pick 9780062034625, 0062034626, B00486UF5C instant download after payment.

An epic historical novel, inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick’s own grandparents embarked on during the Second World War.

A compelling saga that takes us deep inside the world of one Jewish family during the lead-up to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. As the German forces close in on Czech territory, the Bauers’ world starts to crumble. Pavel and Anneliese, the parents of six-year-old Pepik, are forced to make a heart-wrenching decision: should they send their only child away on the Kindertransport?

"By delicately tilting her observer’s mirror, Alison Pick glimpsed the outline of an original tale that could cast new light on old shadows — enough, I argue, that even the Holocaust-saturated will admit there’s room for more of these stories if their vantage point is well chosen...So the Holocaust persists in the literary imagination and through the refining fire of fiction a new generation confronts its own version of what it means to be human."  -  Geraldine Sherman, National Post

Alison Pick’s novel about Czechoslovakian Jews during the Nazi occupation was informed by her family history: her father came from a family of Czech Jews but was raised a Christian. Pick only found this out by chance as a teenager and this hidden complication perhaps lay behind her studying psychology and then philosophy in her native Canada before turning to prose and poetry.