Morris, Heather
Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- ISBN 13:
- 9781785769054
- author:
- Morris, Heather
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Zaffre
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.1 centimeters (0
- Genre:
- History, Special Topics, Holocaust,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 2 working days
Description
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris is a powerful and emotional novel about a young girl's survival in the face of unimaginable hardship. In 1942, Cilka is just 16 years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, where her beauty becomes a source of both salvation and condemnation. As Cilka navigates the brutal realities of the camp, she must confront the harsh realities of power, morality, and survival. After her liberation, she is charged as a collaborator and sent to Siberia, where she faces new challenges and horrors. Yet, it is in this darkest of places that Cilka finds a sense of purpose and humanity, as she tends to the ill and the dying under the care of a compassionate doctor. This heart-wrenching novel is a testament to the human spirit's capacity for resilience and hope, even in the most desperate of circumstances.