{"product_id":"9780702323089","title":"The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lantos, Peter \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAustria\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 January 2023 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 128 x 19 | 204g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deeply moving” - Booktrust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A gripping story of love, courage and triumph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eover evil” - The Bookseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Can, and should, be read by an audience of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eany age.” - Jewish News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSELLER CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of survival, of love between mother and son and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejourney, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein 1944 and 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough Austria and then Germany together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanother: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand as Peter realises that this adventure is really a nightmare -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewatching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emaths from his mother in Belsen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturn home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of the Academy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an internationally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erenowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir, Parallel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLines (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated into Hungarian,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman and Italian. Closed Horizon (Arcadia, 2012) was his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'services to Holocaust education and awareness'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He is one of the last of the generation of survivors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand this - his first book for children - will serve as a testimony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto his experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMORE REVIEWS OF THE BOY WHO DIDN'T WANT TO DIE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'the book [is] absolutely compelling, partly because it is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea true story of extraordinary resilience and survival in unimaginable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecircumstances, but also because Lantos' stark recollections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emake very powerful reading.' Gaby Wine, The Jewish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronicle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925290942723,"sku":"9780702323089","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780702323089.jpg?v=1731345187","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9780702323089","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}