Off the back -

Fifteen year old Hanka Kaudersova has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish.

This is a remarkable novel which soars beyond nightmare, leaving the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.

I got this free with the Guardian, and will one day have time to read it!