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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Series:
The Tattooist of Auschwitz #1
Written by:
Heather Morris 
Read by:
Richard Armitage 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
7 hours 24 minutes 
Published:
January 31 2018 
Available Date:
January 31 2018 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489421319 
Genres:
Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction; History; World War II 
Publisher:
Bolinda/Bonnier audio 
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Longlisted Australian Book Industry Award / General Fiction Book of the Year 2019
Longlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year 2019
Winner Audie Awards / Fiction 2019
Shortlisted Indie Book Awards / Debut Fiction 2019
Shortlisted ABIA / General Fiction Book of the Year 2019
Shortlisted The British Book Awards / Debut Book of the Year 2019

A tale of love and survival, and the real story behind one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust – the blue numbers tattooed on prisoners' arms.

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for ‘tattooist’), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism – but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her. A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful recreation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.