Far to go

Title: Far to go

Author: Alison Pick

Publisher: Griffin Press

Place: Australia

Date: 2010

Far to go is the story about the Bauer family struggle to escape Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in 1939. The primary narrator is Marta, an orphaned girl dependent on the family of well-to-do Jewish factory owner Pavel  Bauer. Working as their young son Pepik’s  nanny, Marta feels  very much part of the family. Torn between her deep feeling for the Bauers and for her pro-Nazi German lover, Marta’s perspective on the unfolding events is hovering between trust in the Bauer’s continuing ability to care for her and her fear that remaining with the family might jeopardize her own safety. Desperate to avoid deportation to the camps, the Bauers flee with their six year old son Pepik and his nanny Marta. Through Marta’s effort they are able to secure a place for Pepik on a Kindertransport but he never sees his parents or Marta again.

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http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/holocaust-fiction
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