LEADER 04008cam a2200577 i 4500001 256559 005 20240621200608.0 008 170216s2017 nyua 000 1 eng 010 2016655639 |z 2016029486 |z 2016038214 020 9780399563089 |qhardcover 020 0399563083 |qhardcover 020 |z9780399563102 |qelectronic book 020 |z0399563105 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)ocn949913254 035 256559 042 pcc 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCF |dZQP |dGO6 |dJNE |dIHX |dZHB |dAPL |dNZD |dCGL |dTNH |dCRP |dLAP |dYU2 |dYDX |dOCLCO |dOCL |dTXWAL |dLHM 050 00 PS3608.U59279 |bW4 2017 100 1 Hunter, Georgia, |d1978- |eauthor. 245 10 We were the lucky ones / |cGeorgia Hunter. 264 1 New York, New York : |bViking, |c[2017] 300 403 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 385 |nageChildren |2lcdgt 520 ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately trying to chart his or her own path toward safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death by working endless hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an extraordinary will to survive and by the fear that they may never see each other again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. In a novel of breathtaking sweep and scope that spans five continents and six years and transports readers from the jazz clubs of Paris to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to Krakow's most brutal prison and the farthest reaches of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the capacity of the human spirit to endure in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 611 07 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 0 Holocaust survivors |vFiction. 650 0 Jews, Polish |vFiction. 650 0 Jewish families |vFiction. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vFiction. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vFiction. 650 7 FICTION / Historical. |2bisacsh 650 7 FICTION / Jewish. |2bisacsh 650 7 FICTION / Cultural Heritage. |2bisacsh 650 4 Holocaust Survivors |vFiction. 650 4 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vFiction. 650 4 Jewish families |vFiction. 650 4 World War, 1939-1945 |vFiction. 650 7 Holocaust survivors. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958838 650 7 Jewish families. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00982765 650 7 Jews, Polish. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983508 650 0 Holocaust survivors |vJuvenile fiction. 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 655 7 Fiction. |2lcgft 776 08 |iOnline version:Hunter, Georgia, 1978- author. |tWe were the lucky ones |dNew York : Viking, 2017 |z9780399563102 |w(DLC) 2016655640 852 0 |bstacks |hPS3608.U59279 |iW4 2017