Cilka's Journey

Name: Cilka's Journey
Brand: Zaffre
SKU: 9781838770433
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The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz now a major SKY TV series

By Heather Morris

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( 194,545 ratings, 13,299 reviews)

Summary

Cilka's Journey follows the story of Cilka Klein, a young woman who faces incredible challenges during and after her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. After surviving the horrors of the concentration camp, she is accused of collaboration and sent to a Siberian gulag. The novel explores her resilience, the friendships she forms, and how she navigates a world marked by loss and suffering, ultimately finding strength and hope.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in historical fiction that delves into the resilience and strength of the human spirit during harrowing times. Following a powerful narrative of survival, it offers a compelling exploration of life in a Siberian prison camp, drawing on true events to present a story of love, hope, and courage amidst unimaginable adversity.

Cilka's Journey

And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love.

Based on what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience.

Description

Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.

In 1942, Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival.

After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.

Innocent, imprisoned once again, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, each day a battle for survival. Cilka befriends a woman doctor and learns to nurse the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under unimaginable conditions. And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love.

Based on what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz. A powerful testament to the triumph of the human will, this novel will move you to tears, but it will also leave you astonished and uplifted by one woman's fierce determination to survive, against all odds.

'She was the bravest person I ever met'

Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a #3 Sunday Times bestseller from 5 May 2024

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781838770433

Publisher: Zaffre

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Zaffre

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 267g

Pages: 480

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Heather Morris Historical Fiction History & Military Military History Russian & Soviet History

About the Author

Born in New Zealand, Heather Morris is passionate about stories of survival, resilience and hope. In 2003, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who 'might just have a story worth telling'. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Lale's story formed the basis for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and the follow-up novel, Cilka's Journey. In 2021 she published the phenomenal conclusion to the Tattooist trilogy, Three Sisters, after being asked to tell the story of three Holocaust survivors who knew Lale from their time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Together, her novels have sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. Her exceptional new novel, Sisters Under the Rising Sun, was published in 2023 bringing another heart-wrenching true story to life with experiences of women in Japanese POW camps, how they found bravery in sisterhood and the hope to survive in music.