The piano teacher of Montparnasse
"In 1942, the Nazis came for a Jewish family living in Montparnasse, occupied Paris. In the chaos, the eleven-year-old daughter ran to the only person she could trust: her piano teacher Andree Levallois, secretly a French Resistance operative. Andree took her in, risking everything. But the authorit...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ashland OR :
Blackstone Publishing,
2026.
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| Summary: | "In 1942, the Nazis came for a Jewish family living in Montparnasse, occupied Paris. In the chaos, the eleven-year-old daughter ran to the only person she could trust: her piano teacher Andree Levallois, secretly a French Resistance operative. Andree took her in, risking everything. But the authorities were closing in, and soon Andree and the girl were caught in a desperate race to stay alive. Andree was denounced, arrested, tortured and sent to the hell of Ravensbruck Women's Concentration Camp. There, she fought for her life, determined to return and honour her promise to save the girl who had been entrusted to her care. Epic in scope, and based on true-life people and events, Heather Morris has written a story of breathtaking beauty, at once gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting." -- Dust jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Includes discussion questions. |
| Physical Description: | 340 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9798228808522 |
| Author Notes: | Heather Morris is a native of New Zealand and now lives in Australia. For several years, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in the U.S. In 2003 Heather rmet Lale Sokolov and they formed a strong bond with each other. Lale began confiding his innermost details of his life during the Holocaust. Heather began writing Lale's story as a screenplay but later reshaped it as her first novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. (Bowker Author Biography) |
