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The
2003 Award
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In Our Strange Gardens by
Michel Quint
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Riverhead Books ISBN 1573229164 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Years
ago, in the bitter years toward the end of WWII, two cousins found themselves
at the mercy of a German guard following an explosive act of resistance.
Thrown into a deep pit with a small group of terrified hostages, the men
are told that one of them will die by dawn to serve as an example for the
others. It's up to the prisoners to propose who will be sacrificed. But
then the guard returns with an extraordinary proposition of his own. In years to come it will become an old man's anecdote, a memory of a moment that once changed the lives of the men who lived it, and once recalled, will define the life of the boy to whom it was told. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Michel Quint was born in France in 1949. In Our Strange Gardens is based on his father's life story. |
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