The Price of Every Soul: A Heartbreaking and Utterly Gripping WW2 Historical Novel Based on the True Story of One Woman's Fight to Save the Jews of Europe - Tapa blanda

The Price of Every Soul (Paperback)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She sat down with the men who were murdering her people, and asked them what a human life cost.Bratislava, March 1942. Nine hundred and ninety-nine girls stand on a station platform with their suitcases, and they have been told they are going to work in a shoe factory. Gisi Fleischmann walks the length of the train handing out bread. When one of them asks whether the factory is real, she says yes.She will carry that lie for the rest of her life.Gisi is fifty, a widow, and she has already done the one thing a mother should never have to do: she put her two daughters on a train to safety and stayed behind. Now, in a back room above a laundry, she and a handful of others begin building something the Nazis never imagined - a secret government inside the Jewish office the Nazis themselves created.They forge baptismal certificates. They send girls across a river at night with money hidden in hairbrushes. They smuggle out the first eyewitness account of the gas chambers, thirty typed pages that the free world will take seven weeks to believe.And Gisi climbs a staircase of white stone, again and again, to sit across a desk from an SS officer and negotiate.The trains stop for two years. Twenty-four thousand people live who should have died. And nobody - not then, not now - can say for certain whether her money bought a single one of them.The Price of Every Soul is a novel about the most impossible bargain of the twentieth century, and about the woman who made it with her eyes open.Based on the extraordinary true story of Gisi Fleischmann and the Bratislava Working Group.Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Postmistress of Paris and The Woman with the Blue Star. A haunting, meticulously researched story of courage, moral compromise and impossible choices, with a detailed Author's Note separating documented history from fiction.An unforgettable and profoundly moving read that will stay with you long after the final page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798194767922

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