Far to Go by Alison Pick – Award-Winning Historical Fiction

Far to Go by Canadian author Alison Pick is a moving historical novel about family, identity, persecution, and survival during the years leading to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

In 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent secular Jews whose secure life in Prague begins to collapse as Hitler’s influence spreads. Unable to protect their six-year-old son Pepik from the growing danger, they make the heartbreaking decision to send him away on a Kindertransport. Interwoven with their story is a present-day narrative that gradually reveals the unexpected fate of the Bauer family.

Inspired in part by Pick’s own family history, the novel won the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award and was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

A powerful choice for readers of WWII historical fiction and family sagas. This is a one-of-a-kind used copy—add Far to Go to your cart now before another reader claims it.