When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving
'Exceptional, layered and compelling...This books moves like a freight train, with force and consequence for the reader' Amy Bloom
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.
Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?
All the Broken Places is a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her past and a present in which it is never too late for bravery.
BOYNE JOHN
John Boyne es autor de dieciséis novelas para adultos, seis para jóvenes y una colección de relatos. Su novela de 2006, El niño con el pijama de rayas, ha vendido más de 11 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo y ha sido adaptada al cine, el teatro, el ballet y la ópera. Entre sus numerosos éxitos de ventas internacionales se incluyen Las furias invisibles del corazón y Una escalera al cielo. Ha ganado cuatro Premios del Libro Irlandés, incluido el de Autor del Año en 2022, además de numerosos premios literarios internacionales. Sus novelas se han publicado en sesenta idiomas.
