The Cut Out Girl
- Author Bart van Es
- Narrator Bart van Es
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 8 hours and 49 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: historical, political and military, Biography and non-fiction prose, European history, Family history, tracing ancestors, Far-right political ideologies and movements, History, Memoirs, Politics and government, Second World War, Society and Social Sciences, 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
Astonishing. Van Es has created a masterpiece of history and memoir, concluding on a note of reconciliation, hope and great love
An extraordinary, harrowing story of loss, survival and love
Deeply moving, this is a remarkable memoir
Powerful . . . extraordinary
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
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
Compassionate and thoughtfully rendered, the book is both a memorable portrait of a remarkable woman and a testament to the healing power of understanding. A complex and uplifting tale
A nuanced, moving, and unusual “hidden child” account
Superb. This is a necessary book – painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting
Fascinating, beautifully written. Van Es carefully salvages Lien’s story and creates a deeply moving and complex book about war, atrocity and human suffering
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