All the broken places [large print] / John Boyne.
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence. All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before--whatever the cost to herself....
Record details
- ISBN: 9798885784313
- Physical Description: 573 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Published in 2022 by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC."--Title page verso."New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" --Cover.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The devil's daughter -- The fence -- Beautiful scars -- The boy -- The final solution.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | L.P. BOYNE (Text) | 33114018606020 | Adult Large Print Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | LP F BOYNE (Text) | 30664100351409 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Angier Public Library | LgPrt F Boy (Text) | 33632002271287 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | LP BOY (Text) | 50503011202738 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Belhaven Public Library | LP FIC (Text) | 38344400210116 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | LP FIC BOYNE, JOHN (Text) | 0112523714441 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Cooleemee | L F BOYNE (Text) | 39872002070248 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Fairview Library | LP BOY (Text) | 0020513469781 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| G.V. Barbee, Sr. Library | LP FIC BOY (Text) | 31420621403115 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
| Graham County Library | LP F BOY (Text) | 80605003655999 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
