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The Resource Mischling, Affinity Konar, (electronic resource)

Mischling, Affinity Konar, (electronic resource)

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"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II. Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks-a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin-travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope
Language
eng
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Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource (10 hr., 57 min.)
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Downloadable audio file
Isbn
9781478915065
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Mischling
Title
Mischling
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Affinity Konar
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Language
eng
Summary
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II. Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks-a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin-travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope
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Konar, Affinity
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fiction
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Narrated by Vanessa Johansson
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Johansson, Vanessa
  • Blackstone Audio, Inc
  • OverDrive, Inc
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  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Concentration camps
  • Nazis
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Twin sisters
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Mischling, Affinity Konar, (electronic resource)
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Downloadable audio file
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digital storage
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource (10 hr., 57 min.)
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unknown
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online
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not applicable
Isbn
9781478915065
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unknown
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73699a46-1dd1-4c89-9bb5-4bb78c088bb3
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Z100119040
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sound
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digital recording
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other
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  • (OCoLC)958382048
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  • 1278015
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Label
Mischling, Affinity Konar, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Note
Downloadable audio file
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Color
not applicable
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Dimensions
  • not applicable
  • unknown
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource (10 hr., 57 min.)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781478915065
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
unknown
Level of compression
unknown
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
73699a46-1dd1-4c89-9bb5-4bb78c088bb3
Publisher number
Z100119040
Quality assurance targets
unknown
Reformatting quality
access
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Speed
other
System control number
  • (OCoLC)958382048
  • (OCoLC)ocn958382048
  • 1278015
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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