The House by the Lake

The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History

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"The incredible story of how a house was witness to German history" Telegraph<br><br>"A touching picturebook which shows children that large events can have repercussions even in small and unheralded places" Wall Street Journal<br><br>A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.<br>On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. <br><br>Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake - now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.<br><br>"An atmospheric and ultimately uplifting tale with delicate, ethereal images" The Financial Times<br><br>PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE: <br>A Radio 4 Book of the Week<br><br>Named a Best Book of the Year by: <br>&gt;&gt; New Statesman &gt;&gt; Daily Express &gt;&gt; Commonweal magazine<br><br>Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015<br><br>Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016<br><br>Over 50 five-star reviews on Amazon<br><br>"A passionate memoir." - Neil MacGregor<br><br>"A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book." - Tom Holland<br><br>"A book that will stay with me for a very long time." - Rachel Joyce<br><br>"A superb work of social history." - The Sunday Times <br><br>"Diamond brilliant ... an extraordinary book." - Sunday Express<br><br>"A deft history o

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781406398694

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

277 x 250 x 8 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Walker Books Ltd.