num_pages: 362
description: 2022 New York City Big Book WINNER2022 Independent Author Network) IAN FINALIST2022 Shortlist for the Selfie Award by Publisher's Weekly2021 FINALIST Self-Published Review ContestHungary 1944. The war comes late to Budapest. Nineteen-year-old Marika forced out of nursing school believes she and her Jewish family will remain safe even as Nazi soldiers fill their cobbled streets. With Russians to their east and the Allies to their west everyone assumes the war is nearly over. Her father once a prominent engineer returns to his passion for puppet making. Soon she is pulled into the resistance to rescue orphans and displaced Jews while keeping her family one step ahead of Eichmanns extermination plans.As the world turns dark around Marika the fanatical Arrow Cross Party a ruthless group that listens to no one including the Germans unleashes a killing spree on the remaining Jews of Europe. One day as peril intensifies she must make a decision that puts her in extreme danger to save herself her family and the orphans shes sheltered. Will she regret that moment for the rest of her life?
language: English
title: The Puppet Maker's Daughter
publisher: Book Circle Press