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Read by: Louise Brearley
Running Time: 10 hrs 53 mins
Categories: Historical recreation, World War 2; Holocaust
Released: 2019
Media: mp3 CD, Unabridged Audio Book
ISBN: 9780655623779
In 2003, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who ‘might just have a story worth telling’. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives.
Their friendship grew and Lale embarked on a journey of self-scrutiny, entrusting the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust to her.
Heather originally wrote Lale’s story as a screenplay – which ranked high in international competitions – before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Synopsis
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just 16 yrs old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation form the other women prisoners. Cilka soon learns that power, even unwittingly given, equals survival.
After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.
Innocent and imprisoned once again, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, each day a battle for survival. Cilka befriends a woman doctor, and learns to nurse the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under unimaginable conditions. And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love.
Based on what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to the international bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A powerful testament to the triumph of the human spirit, this novel will make you weep, but it will leave you astonished and uplifted by one woman's fierce determination to survive, against all odds.
Reviews
“This book is emotional, provoking, poignant, heartbreaking, touchy, amazing sequel of Tattoist of Auschwitz.”
—Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project.
“Based on a true story, the wrenching yet riveting tale…is a moving testament to the power of kindness, ingenuity, and hope.”
- People
“This is a book of historical fiction. Cilka Klein was a real life person who was taken by Germans in WWII to Auschwitz and then Birkenau concentration camps when she was only 16. The author confirmed that Cilka was a real person, but many events in the book are her own interpretation of Cilka's experiences.”
- Times Literary Supplement (London)
“This is an inspiring story of courage and the will to survive in the face of terrible, life threatening conditions. I became invested in Cilka's story and thoroughly enjoyed this book”
- PopSugar
- Jill Mansell, author of This Could Change Everything
On Media
Audiobook on CD-ROM, complete with cover art on CD. Supplied in windowed CD sleeve, no case provided.
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