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Book Title
Zookeeper's Wife : a War Story
Publication Name
The Zookeeper's Wife
Title
The Zookeeper's Wife
Subtitle
A War Story
Author
Diane Ackerman
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
039333306X
EAN
9780393333060
ISBN
9780393333060
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Genre
History
Topic
Holocaust, Europe / Eastern, Military / World War II, Europe / Poland, Jewish
Release Year
2008
Release Date
28/07/2008
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.9in
Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, best-selling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests"--Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose names they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself. Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinskis' young son risked his life carrying food to the Guests, while also tending an eccentric array of creatures in the house. With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, it's small wonder the zoo's codename became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
039333306x
ISBN-13
9780393333060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038292951

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Book Title
Zookeeper's Wife : a War Story
Author
Diane Ackerman
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Europe / Eastern, Military / World War II, Europe / Poland, Jewish
Publication Year
2008
Genre
History
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz

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A lovely story about the Holocaust might seem like a grotesque oxymoron. But in ?The Zookeeper's Wife?, Diane Ackerman proves otherwise. Here is a true story... that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful. Ackerman has a wonderful tale to tell, and she tells it wonderfully., I can't imagine a better story or storyteller. ?The Zookeeper's Wife ?will touch every nerve you have., Diane Ackerman has surpassed even herself in her latest book, which is alternatingly funny, moving, and terrifying. This powerful thriller would be a great novel--except that it happens to be true., I Can't Imagine a Better Story or Storyteller. the Zookeeper's Wife Will Touch Every Nerve You Have., A lovely story about the Holocaust might seem like a grotesque oxymoron. But in The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman proves otherwise. Here is a true story--of human empathy and its opposite--that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful. Ackerman has a wonderful tale to tell, and she tells it wonderfully., A lovely story about the Holocaust might seem like a grotesque oxymoron. But in The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman proves otherwise. Here is a true story... that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful. Ackerman has a wonderful tale to tell, and she tells it wonderfully., A stunning tale of war and sanctuary [that is] perceptive, knowledgeable and rhapsodic.... How incisively and damningly Ackerman dissects the Nazis' perverted view of nature.... A shining book beyond category.... It is no stretch to say that this is the book Ackerman was meant to write., Author Diane Ackerman offers us The Zookeeper's Wife, a tale of untold bravery with a whimsical dose of history reminiscent of Noah's Ark.... Ackerman's story is a treatise on nobility--a word that applies to some humans and all the animals in The Zookeeper's Wife., Diane Ackerman has surpassed even herself in her latest book, which is alternatingly funny, moving, and terrifying. This powerful thriller would be a great novel--except that it is true.
Copyright Date
2008
Dewey Decimal
940.53/18350943841
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by shirley10648
    Mar 12, 2018Top favourable review

    Fantastic Holocaust Story

    I have read this book several times seen the film and highly recommend this book as part of every child's curriculum in school over the age of 10 years old

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

  • by 24051-half
    May 29, 2018

    Excellent read!

    Everyone should read this book. We should all remember so it hopefully won't happen again. Even though it is happening in certain parts of the world today.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-Owned

  • by streeter61park
    Feb 23, 2017

    Worth reading.

    An excellent account of the German occupation of Poland and how a family managed it.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-Owned

  • by chesbaycrab61
    Mar 30, 2021

    An excellent read

    Book was read as an assignment. there was so much I wasn't aware of. Moved by their bravery and leadership

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: elto03

  • by olivimolito-0
    Jan 16, 2019

    Zookeeper's Wife -Holocaust

    I enjoy books about the holocaust that people are saved and escape.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

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