Se Fueron a la Izquierda / They Went Left

Alemania, 1945

Aunque el campo de concentraci n de Gross - Rossen fue liberado, para Zof a Lederman las heridas que le dej la guerra, tanto en su cuerpo como en su mente) no han sanado. Tres a os antes, ella y su hermano menor, Abek fueron los nicos integrantes de su familia a los que se enviaron a la derecha; es decir, lejos de las c maras de gas de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Todos los dem s, sus padres, su abuela, su radiante t a, se fueron a la izquierda.

Antes de que los nazis los separaran, los hermanos alcanzaron a hacerse una promesa:

_De Abek a Zofia

- De la A a la Z.

- Cuando vuelva a verte encontraremos nuestro abecedario. Estaremos completos, y todo estar bien. Te prometo que te encontrar .

Pero hallar a un ni o en un mar de desaparecidos no es tarea f cil, y las pesquisas llevar n a Zofia a un campamento de sobrevivientes donde todos intentan dejar atr s un pasado doloroso y labrarse un nuevo futuro.

Entre los escombros de un continente roto, Zofia debe profundizar en un misterio cuyas respuestas podr an romperla o ayudarla a reconstruir su mundo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The New York Times bestselling, critically acclaimed, tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat.

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja--they went left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fianc . And Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.

But the deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent, Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.