Tamar
A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
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In the terrible "Hunger Winter" of 1944, two undercover operatives parachute into Nazi-occupied Holland. They are spies for the Allied forces, sent to provide support for the Dutch resistance movement.
Half a century later, a fifteen-year-old girl named Tamar inherits a box from her grandfather containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges - a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters - and she is his namesake. His story is a complex one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War.
Mal Peet's Carnegie Medal-winning masterpiece is a story of violence and resistance, love and deception, loyalty and betrayal.
About this Author
Mal Peet (1947-2015) is the acclaimed author of the Carnegie Medal-winning novel Tamar as well as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Life: An Exploded Diagram and three Paul Faustino novels: Keeper, The Penalty, and Exposure, a winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He is also the co-author of Cloud Tea Monkeys, Mysterious Traveler, and Night Sky Dragons, all of which he wrote with his wife, Elspeth Graham.
Format: Young adult hardcover
Pages: 432
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2007-01-23
Reviews
Simply superb.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
This powerful story will grow richer with each reading.
--Booklist (starred review)
An extraordinary, gripping novel.
--School Library Journal (starred review)
A considerable original achievement.
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
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