The Final Journey

Name: The Final Journey
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Gudrun Pausewang
ISBN: 9780525592693

Author: Gudrun Pausewang

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 4 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 12/04/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Modern History, Holocaust, Children's Fiction, Historical Stories

Synopsis

Alice is eleven years old, and it is wartime. She is on a train with no seats, no lights, no sanitary facilities. Her parents and her grandmother are missing, and Alice doesn't know where she is going. Maybe she will get to play outside again, maybe she will see her parents. But as the train rolls on, Alice begins to realize that just when you think things can't possibly get any worse, they do.

About The Author

Gundrun Pausewang is the author of many novels, including The Final Journey. She was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry and after World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has won several awards, including the German Federal Cross of Merit, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for The Cloud in 1988.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa

This is a grim, brutal, and heartbreaking book. It’s told from the point of view of a young eleven-year-old Jewish girl in Germany during the Nazi era, who is on a train to who knows where. It’s exceptionally well written and an engrossing story. All the characters seemed very real. I thought the auth......more

Goodreads review by Stacy

The Holocaust is an all-too-popular subject for young adult literature, so it was with reluctance that I opened this book. Unlike so many books in this genre, there are no real heroes, no noble acts, and no redemption in this claustrophobic tale first published in Germany. Instead, this short novel......more

Goodreads review by Lena

Eine unglaublich gute, mitreißende und auch herzzerreißende Geschichte. Der Text ist symbolisch so stark aufgeladen, dass das Lesen trotz der schweren Thematik eine Freude ist. Ich lege jedem ans Herz, dieses Buch zu lesen!......more

Goodreads review by Jazlyn

This book is about Young Alice who is only 11 but nearly 12 and she has gone on a train with her grandfather. They basically just show what they have been doing and how Alice feels through out this train ride. They have no idea what awaits them when they arrive to there destination. She also hopes w......more