The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found :: Costa Book of the Year 2019

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ISBN: 9780241978726

Author	Es, Bart van
Pub Date	10/01/2019
Binding	Paperback
Pages	288
Country	GBR
Dewey	940.531809

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

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WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018

'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' 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

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