THE CUT OUT GIRL: A STORY OF WAR AND FAMILY, LOST AND FOUND
Book ID/图书代码： 11701216B89868
English Summary/英文概要： It is the story of a young Jewish girl, Lien, who was hidden by the author’s grandparents in the Netherlands during the Second World War and later on adopted by them. Van Es only discovered the full story two years ago, when his grandmother mysteriously fell out with Lien and never spoke of her again. He met up with Lien, found her alive and well living in Amsterdam.
Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago,
but one story from his childhood remained with him;
a young Jewish girl named Lientje was taken in during
the war by Van Es’s relatives and hidden from the
Nazis. Although Lientje was raised by her foster family as one of their own, after the war there was a falling out, and they were now no longer in touch.
After some sleuthing, Van Es learned that Lientje was
now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Somewhat
reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually
they struck up a remarkable friendship. The Cut Out
Girl braids together a recreation of Lientje’s intensely harrowing childhood story, with the present-day account of Van Es’s efforts to piece that story
together, including coaxing some very shy old ghosts
back into the light.
A triumph of subtlety, decency and unflinching
observation, The Cut Out Girl is a deeply moving
account of a young girl’s struggle for survival, a story about the powerful love of foster families but also the powerful challenges they faced, and about the ways our most painful experiences define us but also can be redefined, on a more honest level, even many years after the fact.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个年轻的犹太女孩利恩的故事，她在二战期间被作者的祖父母隐藏在荷兰，后来被他们收养。范埃斯两年前才发现这个故事的全部真相，当时他的祖母神秘地与利恩在一起，从此再也没有提起过她。他遇到了利恩，发现她不仅还活着，而且在阿姆斯特丹过得很好。
多年前，巴特•范•埃斯离开荷兰去了英国，但他童年时的一个故事一直陪伴着他；一个名叫利恩的犹太女孩在战争中被范•埃斯的亲戚带走，并被纳粹藏匿起来。虽然利恩是由她的养父母抚养长大的，但是战争结束后，他们发生了争吵，现在他们不再联系了。
经过一番调查，范•埃斯得知利恩现在已经80多岁，住在阿姆斯特丹。她有些不情愿地答应和他见面，最后他们建立了一种非凡的友谊。《被排挤的女孩》结合了利恩强烈的童年悲惨故事的再现，讲述了如今的范•埃斯努力将这个故事拼凑在一起的故事，包括引诱一些非常害羞的古老幽灵回到光明中。
微妙的胜利，正派和坚定的观察，《被排挤的女孩》是一个感人至深的一个年轻女孩的生存斗争史，寄养家庭的强大的爱情故事也是他们面临着强大的挑战，和我们最痛苦的经历，我们也可以重新定义它，在一个更诚实的水平，即使事情已经过去很多年。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：提前表扬《被排挤的女孩》:
“很了不起的……深刻的感动，以极大的灵活性讲述，让今天的智慧与引人入胜的战时事件的叙述并行。”——佩内洛普•莱芙利
“明亮、优雅、令人难忘——我从头到尾读了一遍。”菲利普•桑斯，《东西街》的作者
“通过细致的研究和无可挑剔的文笔，范•埃斯对大屠杀中“躲藏”的儿童以及庇护他们的家庭的悲剧和胜利进行了令人惊叹的描述。”——《我们是幸运儿》的作者乔治亚•亨特
Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through (Philippe Sands, Author of East West Street)
Remarkable - the story of one traumatic childhood, deeply moving, and told with great dexterity, allowing the wisdoms of today to run parallel with the absorbing narrative of wartime events (Penelope Lively)
An awe-inspiring account of the tragedies and triumphs within the world of the Holocaust’s "hide-away" children, and of the families who sheltered them (Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones)
Compassionate and thoughtfully rendered, the book is both a memorable portrait of a remarkable woman and a testament to the healing power of understanding. A complex and uplifting tale (Kirkus)
Brought to life with family photographs and diary entries that add further impact to Lien’s harrowing memories and testimony - this deeply affecting and fascinating story is guaranteed to haunt you (Sunday Mirror)
Fascinating, beautifully written. Van Es carefully salvages Lien’s story and creates a deeply moving and complex book about war, atrocity and human suffering (The Oldie)
A nuanced, moving, and unusual "hidden child" account (Publishers Weekly)
Harrowing and beautiful (Bookseller)
About the Author/作者介绍： 巴特•范•埃斯出生于荷兰，会说英语和荷兰语。他现在和家人住在牛津，他是牛津大学的英语文学教授，也是圣凯瑟琳学院的研究员。他之前出版过两本关于莎士比亚的书:《公司里的莎士比亚》和《莎士比亚的喜剧》。
Bart van Es is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College. He is the author of Spenser’s Forms of History (2002), A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies (2006), and Shakespeare in Company (2013). In addition to his work on Spenser and Shakespeare he has published articles on Daniel, Drayton, Renaissance historiography, and pastoral poetry. Essays by him appear in various Oxford Handbooks, including that on Holinshed’s Chronicles and that on English Prose, 1500-1640. He is a contributor to Medieval Shakespeare: Pasts and Presents and has chapters forthcoming in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Volume 2, and Moving Shakespeare Indoors.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Fig Tree / Penguin UK; US: Penguin US; Denmark: Lindhardt & Ringhof; Germany: DuMont; France: Fayard; Holland: De Bezige Bij; Italy: Guanda; Sweden: Atlantis.
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