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The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel

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By (author): Antonio Iturbe Natasha Lester

Translated by: Lilit ekulin Thwaites, Lilit Zekulin Thwaites

Illustrated by: Loreto Aroca

The Librarian of Auschwitz is ideal for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice, this graphic novel is the story of the smallest library in the world and the most dangerous. Based on a true story, it is an extraordinary novel of courage and hope by Antonio Iturbe and Loreto Aroca.

It wasnt an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine guns . . .

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the secret librarian of Auschwitz, responsible for the safekeeping of the small collection of titles, as well as the living books prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well, they too can be borrowed to educate the children in the camp.

But books are extremely dangerous. They make people think. And nowhere are they more dangerous than in Block 31 of Auschwitz, the childrens block, where the slightest transgression can result in execution, no matter how young the transgressor . . .

Based on the incredible and moving true story of Dita Kraus, holocaust survivor and secret librarian for the childrens block in Auschwitz.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 402g
  • Dimensions: 179 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529088861

About Antonio IturbeNatasha Lester

Antonio Iturbe was born in 1967 and grew up in the dock-side neighbourhood of Barceloneta in Barcelona. He studied Information Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and over the past fifteen years has worked as a cultural journalist. In 2005 he made his debut as a novelist with the comic novel Rectos torcidos and has written for children with the series Los Casos del Inspector Cito a collection of the stories he used to read to his son at bedtime. He is the author of the international bestseller The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Prince of the Skies.Salva Rubio is a Spanish author and historian. His credits include the graphic novels Monet: Itinerant of Light and The Photographer of Mauthausen.Loreto Aroca is a Spanish artist and a graduate of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. She previously won the schools Luna de Aire Award honoring the best poetry aimed at children for her and Fran Pintaderas book Portrait of the Pinzón Family (Retrato de la familia Pinzón).Lilit ekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Melbourne-based literary translator (Spanish>English). Her book-length translations include the bestselling The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe 2017) Australian Connection (multiple authors 2019) and two futuristic novels by Rosa Montero Tears in Rain (2012) and Weight of the Heart. (2016). In 2016 she was awarded Spains Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spanish culture in Australia.

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