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The Cut Out Girl
  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 10/01/2019

  • ISBN: 9780241978726

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 233g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Cut Out Girl

Bart van Es

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*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***

'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

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 10/01/2019

  • ISBN: 9780241978726

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 233g

  • RRP: £9.99


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About the Author

Bart van Es

Bart van Es was born in the Netherlands and is bilingual in English and Dutch. He now lives with his family in England. He is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He has published three books, including, most recently, A Very Short Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies.

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Bart van Es wins the 2018 Costa Book of the Year award for The Cut Out Girl

30 January 2019

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