Imprint: Puffin
Published: 02/08/2012
ISBN: 9780141343136
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £6.99
After is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series.
After
The Nazis took my parents I was scared
After
They killed my best friend I was angry
After
They ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all
'Haunting . . . dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope' - Guardian
'You will laugh . . . prepare for shock and tears' - Sunday Times
After is the fourth in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Two Weeks with the Queen. The other books in the series, Once, Then and Now are also available from Puffin.
Imprint: Puffin
Published: 02/08/2012
ISBN: 9780141343136
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £6.99
One of the reasons this humane and carefully crafted book is so readable is that the author celebrates ordinariness and childishness even as he chronicles terrible cruelty. But prepare for shock and tears.
Haunting . . . dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope.
[Morris Gleitzman] has accomplished something extraordinary.
Extraordinary . . . one of the finest children's novels written in the last 25 years . . . Narrative at its gripping best