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Joubert, Irma,

The girl from the train / Irma Joubert ; translation by Elsa Silke. - x, 370 pages ; 22 cm

"A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze between the bars covering the windows. The daughter of a German soldier, Gretl understands very little about how her grandmothers Jewishness brought her first to the ghetto, then to the train, and now, to the Polish countryside where she wanders, searching for food and water for her dying sister. Soon, Gretl finds refuge with Jakob, a Polish freedom fighter, and his family, where she is sheltered until the end of the war; Gretl is then sent away to a new life, a new name, and a new faith in Apartheid-era South Africa. As she comes of age in this strange place, she confronts its prejudices as she hides the truth of her past from her new family. When Jakob makes his way to South Africa many years later, Gretl and Jakob are reunited in a love story that transcends time and distance and survives the ravages of hatred and war"--

ISBN: 9780529102379 (paperback) 0529102374 (paperback)

LCCN: 2014047546

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Afrikaans fiction--21st century.
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Germans--South Africa--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Poland--19th century--Fiction.
South Africa--19th century--Fiction.
Poland--Fiction.
South Africa--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PT6592.2.O795 / V4713 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 839.3636