Fiction
Portrait of a Lost Boy
by Michael Bartram
Description
In Jerusalem on a beautiful day in 1898, Johannes, a young German boy goes on a trip with his father and an artist friend to Hezekiah’s ancient tunnel and disappears. Later the same day and just a few miles away, his mother gives birth to a second son, a child destined to grow up in a house of grief, neglected by his parents and forever in the shadow of the brother he never met. Hanging on the kitchen wall the artist’s evocative portrait of the lost boy is a constant reminder of the family’s pain.
Sweeping across five decades and set against the political backdrop of both world wars, the Weimar Republic, Nazism and the realisation of Zionist hopes, Portrait of a Lost Boy is a stunning story of love and loss and of the enduring strength of the human spirit. From the history of the German Templers in Palestine to the plight of Jewish wartime refugees, its finely wrought historical accuracy underpins an affecting tale of flight and takes the reader from the Middle East to Germany and to Venice as it develops its themes of human disaster and personal survival. At once beautiful and heart-rending it is only in the closing pages, with a visceral depiction of the firebombing of Dresden, that the fate of the lost boy is brought to a powerful and memorable close.
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Endorsements
“A tour-de-force of historical fiction that grips and holds you tight, right up to the final full stop.” Paul Blezard, former Literary Editor, The Lady. "An excellent and well researched historical novel which succeeds where many other novels fail - it manages to perfectly encapsulate the zeitgeist of the period while providing characters and story you actually care about.” Upcoming4me.com
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Alliance Publishing Press
- Publication Date June 2014
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780956999290
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 9.99 GBP
- Pages370
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions198 x 129 mm
- IllustrationNone
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