num_pages: 376
description: The New York Times bestselling author of the The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazisuntil a secret from her past threatens everything.After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted however when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn whats happening in the outside world she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forestand in turn they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel.
language: English
title: The Forest of Vanishing Stars
publisher: Gallery Books