Review Essay: What Is Left of the Left?

✍ Monique Polak 📂 Fiction 📅 2008;2011 🏛 Orca Book Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 115 KB 👁 2 views

A pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland, and she and her famil

What World Is Left

✍ Monique Polak 📂 Fiction 📅 2008;2011 🏛 Orca Book Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 116 KB 👁 3 views

### From Booklist _Starred Review_ Growing up in a secular Jewish home in Holland, Anneke cares little about Judaism, so she has no faith to lose when, in 1943, her family is deported to Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp. At 14, she suffers backbreaking labor and foul, unsanitary conditi

What World Is Left

✍ Polak, Monique 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Orca Book Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 210 KB

### From Booklist _Starred Review_ Growing up in a secular Jewish home in Holland, Anneke cares little about Judaism, so she has no faith to lose when, in 1943, her family is deported to Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp. At 14, she suffers backbreaking labor and foul, unsanitary conditi

What World is Left

✍ Polak, Monique 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Orca Book Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 208 KB

A Dutch Jewish teenager is sent with her family to Theresienstadt, a "model" concentration camp, where she confronts great evil and learns to do what it takes to survive.

What Is Left the Daughter

✍ Norman, Howard 📂 Fiction 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 129 KB

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books--_The Bird Artist_ , _The Museum Guard_ , and _The Haunting of L_ --in this erotically charged and morally complex story. Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is sud

What's Left is Right

✍ Munro, Irving 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🌐 English ⚖ 120 KB