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"Deeply moving" - Booktrust
"A gripping story of love, courage and triumph
over evil" - The Bookseller
"Can, and should, be read by an audience of
any age." - Jewish News
A story of survival, of love between mother and son and
of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important
read.
The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary
journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through
war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945.
Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling
through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way,
unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping
in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick
factory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter realises
that this adventure is really a nightmare -
watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning
maths from his mother in Belsen.
All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation,
infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can
return home.
Author Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of
the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an
internationally renowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir, Parallel
Lines (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated
into Hungarian, German and Italian. Closed Horizon (Arcadia,
2012) was his first novel.
Peter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for
'services to Holocaust education and awareness'.
He is one of the last of the generation of survivors and this
- his first book for children - will serve as a testimony
to his experience.
Peter lives in London.
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"the book [is] absolutely compelling, partly because it is
a true story of extraordinary resilience and survival in unimaginable
circumstances, but also because Lantos' stark recollections
make very powerful reading." Gaby Wine, The Jewish
Chronicle
- Publisher Name:Scholastic
- ISBN: 9780702334467
- Author:Lantos, Peter
- Publication Date:2025-01-02
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