The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

ISBN-13: 9780393333060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str.

Diane Ackerman

Opis

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story--sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism. Winner of the 2008 Orion Award.

O autorze

Diane Ackerman, geboren 1948 in Illinois, Studium der Geisteswissenschaften. Zahlreiche Buchveröffentlichungen (auch Lyrik und Gedichte) sowie journalistische Arbeiten.Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in Ithaca, NY.