{"product_id":"parallel-lines-4","title":"Parallel Lines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing\" OBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's \u003ci\u003eIf This is a Man\u003c\/i\u003e\" EDWARD WILSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell\" ANNE SEBBA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a winter in Bergen-Belsen where his father died, he and his mother were liberated by the Americans outside a small German village, and handed over to the Red Army. They escaped from the Russians, and travelled, hiding on a goods train, through Prague to Budapest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike other books dealing with this period, this is not a Holocaust story, but a child's recollection of a journey full of surprise, excitement, bereavement and terror. Yet this remains a testimony of survival, overcoming obstacles which to adults may seem insurmountable but to a child were just part of an adventure and, ultimately, recovery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter having established a career in the West, the author decided to revisit the stages on his earlier journeys, reliving the past through the perspective of the present. Along the way, ghosts from the past are finally laid to rest by the kindness of new friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Lisa Appignanesi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262238216536,"sku":"9781905147571","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781905147571_7b029636-620e-4ca0-84a4-54983912bc57.jpg?v=1764568831","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/parallel-lines-4","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}