The Cut Out Girl
- Author Bart van Es
- Narrator Bart van Es
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 8 hours and 49 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: historical, political and military, European history, Family history, tracing ancestors, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Memoirs, Second World War, The Holocaust.
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What to expect
*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***
WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cut Out Girl written and read by Bart van Es.
'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard
'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.
His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.
'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian
'Remarkable, deeply moving' Penelope Lively
Critics Review
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Astonishing. Van Es has created a masterpiece of history and memoir, concluding on a note of reconciliation, hope and great love
Evening Standard -
An extraordinary, harrowing story of loss, survival and love
Guardian -
Deeply moving, this is a remarkable memoir
Sunday Times -
Powerful . . . extraordinary
Irish Times -
Brought to life with family photographs and diary entries that add further impact to Lien’s harrowing memories and testimony – this deeply affecting and fascinating story is guaranteed to haunt you
Sunday Mirror -
Remarkable – the story of one traumatic childhood, deeply moving, and told with great dexterity, allowing the wisdoms of today to run parallel with the absorbing narrative of wartime events
Penelope Lively
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