Tom Macindeor is an itinerant English teacher, spending the summer in Warsaw in the hope of finding out the truth about his grandfather, a Polish resistance fighter. But when he hears the voice of Ela, a young woman trapped in the Jewish Ghetto of 1942, a window opens not just on his past but the future of the ghetto and all those who live in it. Should he share what he knows of their fate, or will Ela's search for the truth about her own family doom them both?Evie Woolmore is a conjuress of magical realism. Her novels - Equilibrium, Rising Up, The Salt Factory - infuse historical settings with an otherworldly quality. Their evocative atmospheres blur boundaries between the real and the imaginary, or whatever passes for real and imaginary...
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- Release Date 08/06/2012
- Author Evie Woolmore
- Language English
- Company allonymbooks; 1st edition
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