After
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:2nd Aug '12
£7.99
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After is the third 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 third 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, After, Soon, Maybe and Now are also available from Puffin.
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. -- Nicolette Jones (on Then, children's book of the week) * Sunday Times *
Haunting . . . dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope. * Guardian on Once *
[Morris Gleitzman] has accomplished something extraordinary. * Meg Rosoff *
Extraordinary . . . one of the finest children's novels written in the last 25 years . . . Narrative at its gripping best * Sydney Morning Herald *
ISBN: 9780141343136
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
Weight: 159g
224 pages