The Song Of The Stork - Softcover

Collishaw, Stephan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144483441X ISBN 13: 9781444834413

Publisher: Ulverscroft Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

‘An elegantly crafted, beautifully written novel about love, survival and hope against all the odds’ William Ryan

‘Tightly written and suspenseful... a darkly compassionate fable of human endurance in absolute extremity’ Stevie Davies

‘...a dark jewel that holds up for examination the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love’ Guy Kennaway

‘Stephan Collishaw takes your hand and leads you into a world of tragic beauty, inspiring strength and delicate kindness in the midst of horror’ Aistė Diržiūtė

Fifteen-year-old Yael is on the run. The Jewish girl seeks shelter from the Germans on the farm of the village outcast. Aleksei is mute and solitary, but as the brutal winter advances, he reluctantly takes her in and a delicate relationship develops.

As her feelings towards Aleksei change, the war intrudes and Yael is forced to join a Jewish partisan group fighting in the woods.

Torn apart and fighting for her life, The Song of the Stork is Yael's story of love, hope and survival. It is the story of one woman finding a voice as the voices around her are extinguished.

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Review:

'At once tightly written and suspenseful, Collishaw's historical novel is a darkly compassionate fable of human endurance in absolute extremity.' --Stevie Davies

'An elegantly crafted, beautifully written novel about love, survival and hope against all the odds - The Song of the Stork is a reading experience to savour.' --William Ryan

'A haunting and delicate examination of love and survival in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe ... a powerful and engaging story of survival that will stay with you long after you've finished the final page' --Bookbag

'The subtle melody of The Song of the Stork caught my soul with its first notes and didn't leave me until the very last ones. Stephan Collishaw takes your hand and leads you into a world of tragic beauty, inspiring strength and delicate kindness in the midst of horror and through this journey he reminds you of the sound of hope.' --Aiste Dirziute

'The Song of The Stork is a harrowing novel about a Jewish girl abandoned in World War 2 and forced to fend for herself in a landscape crawling with sexual ambiguity and brutal violence. It's a dark jewel that holds up for examination the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. Yet The Song of The Stork is as much about the future as the past. Stephan Collishaw warns us how the times we live in might end up: with an oafish peasantry drunk on Brexit chasing children through the woods, just because their parents voted Remain.' --Guy Kennaway

'...a masterly work of condensed fiction that synthesises the art of a great writer with the knowledge of a keen researcher who has become immersed in the first-hand sources of the period... A beautiful book that will go down as one of the classics of the literature of the anti-Nazi partisans in the forests around Vilna during the Holocaust.' --Dovid Katz

About the Author:

Stephan Collishaw was brought up on a Nottingham council estate and failed all of his O'levels. His first novel The Last Girl (2003) was chosen by the Independent on Sunday as one of its Novels of the Year. In 2004 Stephan was selected as one of the British Council's 20 best young British novelists. His brother is the renowned artist, Mat Collishaw. After a 10-year writing hiatus, The Song of the Stork is Stephan's highly anticipated third novel. Stephan now works as a teacher in Nottingham, having also lived and worked abroad in Lithuania and Mallorca, where his son Lukas was born.

Follow Stephan on Twitter at @scollishaw

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 144483441X
• ISBN 13: 9781444834413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288