The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel

$15.89

This historical fiction novel provides a lens to explore the Holocaust, its aftermath, and themes of identity and memory.

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel
$15.89

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“An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic.” –Dana Kennedy, New York Times On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked and eventually came to love, had confided to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely. This novel is the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding had survived to become a man. Peter arrives in America, the land of self-creation, and passes as a Christian. Successful in business and rich in love in the boom years of the 1950s, he thrives in the present, plans for the future, and has no past. But there is a cost to his charade. When The Diary of a Young Girl is published to worldwide acclaim, it triggers paralyzing memories of his experiences in the secret annex in Amsterdam. The diary is his story too, and once the floodgate of memory opens, his life spirals out of control. Based on extensive research of Peter van Pels and the strange and disturbing life Anne Frank’s diary took on after her death, this is a novel about the memory of death, the death of memory, and the inescapability of the past. Reading group guide included.

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Weight 0.249 lbs
Dimensions 14 × 2 × 21.1 in

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