Tamar
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| Author(s) | Mal Peet |
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| Subtitle | A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal |
| Publisher | Walker Books |
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| When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War -- and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever. | |
From acclaimed British sensation Mal Peet comes a masterful story of adventure, love, secrets, and betrayal in time of war, both past and present.
Reviews
Barnes and Noble
In the final winter of World War II, two young Dutchmen parachute into their Nazi-occupied homeland; they're Resistance fighters, code-named Dart and Tamar. Fifty years later, one of these two soldiers makes a jump of a different sort -- this one without a parachute -- to his death. Left behind is a box labeled with his granddaughter's name, Tamar; inside are hidden messages and clues to his enigmatic life. These two stories -- Tamar's and her grandfather's -- separated by half a century, dovetail in Peet's thrilling tale of love, jealousy, betrayal, and the terrifying world of Resistance fighters.
Accompanied by her Dutch cousin, Yoyo, Tamar sets out to find the source of her namesake river, and to decipher the mystery her grandfather entrusted to her. Twisting through their journey, like the river they follow, is the gripping narrative of those brave fighters who half a century ago fought the Nazis and what was to prove an even greater foe: the cold, hunger, sickness, isolation, fear, and mind-numbing boredom of simply waiting.
Tamar is a story so irresistible you'll never want it to end, a historical novel with all the suspense of a nail-biting thriller, and a book that readers will find impossible to put down. (Spring 2007 Selection)
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