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Georgia hunter shares her fifteenyearold discovery that she comes from a family of holocaust survivors in her new memoir, we were the lucky ones. Download or stream we were the lucky ones by georgia hunter. Her debut novel, we were the lucky ones, weaves the facts of their remarkable stories into a firstperson, fictional narrative that, as publishers weekly notes, sidesteps hollow sentimentality and nihilism, revealing instead the beautiful complexity and ambiguity of life in this extraordinarily moving novel. We were the lucky ones by georgia hunter fictiondb. It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. Paula mclain, author of the paris wife and circling the sun. Georgia hunter author of we were the lucky ones 550ktrstv. New york times bestseller inspired by the incredible true story of one jewish family separated at the start of world war ii, determined to surviveand to reunite we were the lucky ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love.
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We were the lucky ones is the history, fiction, paranormal, redemption and. Author event with georgia hunter author of we were the lucky ones. Unlike millions of their polish compatriots, georgia hunter s jewish ancestors managed to survive the gulags, ghettos and pogroms of 1940s europe. This was a family saga at its best, bringing tears not where you might expect, but in the happy moments. It is an astonishing saga of hope, of luck, of destruction, and most remarkably of love, made all the more astonishing because of the.
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