--- product_id: 40943208 title: "The Orphan's Tale: A Novel – A NYT Bestseller Historical Fiction Story of WWII Survival" price: "636389₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/40943208-the-orphans-tale-a-novel-a-nyt-bestseller-historical-fiction store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # The Orphan's Tale: A Novel – A NYT Bestseller Historical Fiction Story of WWII Survival **Price:** 636389₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Orphan's Tale: A Novel – A NYT Bestseller Historical Fiction Story of WWII Survival - **How much does it cost?** 636389₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/40943208-the-orphans-tale-a-novel-a-nyt-bestseller-historical-fiction) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Look for Pam Jenoff’s new novel, The Woman with the Blue Star , an unforgettable story of courage and friendship during wartime. A New York Times bestseller! “Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. “ — Library Journal “Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion…. I read this novel in a headlong rush.” —Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival. Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything. Don’t miss Pam Jenoff’s new novel, Last Twilight in Paris , a gripping mystery and an unforgettable story about love and survival. Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff: Code Name Sapphire The Lost Girls of Paris The Woman with the Blue Star The Ambassador’s Daughter The Diplomat’s Wife The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Kommandant’s Girl The Winter Guest Review: LOVED it - I think NPR said it best: "Christina Baker Kline's ‘Orphan Train’ has collided with the circus caravan from Sara Gruen's ‘Water for Elephants,’ and out of wreck has come Pam Jenoff's ‘The Orphan's Tale.’ The novel is a magical carnival saga, a bit grittier than either of its antecedents, and with more at stake...Jenoff has written a tribute to the human spirit that soars in the midst of epic despair." And I ask you, “How could I pass this up?” In short, I didn’t. I quickly moved this one up to the top of my TBR pile and dug right in. We start with a prologue where an elderly woman makes her way into a new exhibit on European circuses. Based on the dust jacket, I know that it’s either Noa or Astrid. By the time I reached the prologue’s end, I was hooked. Then the story moves back in time to Germany, 1944. When Noa is sixteen, she is kicked out of her parents’ home when she discovers she is pregnant by a German officer. While we only see her after she has given up her baby, we see that she has lost none of that innocence that got her in the family way. Noa is cleaning a train station and lives in a closet. One night, a train pulls in. Thinking she hears a baby crying, Noa inspects the boxcars and finds a horrific sight. One of the cars’ floor is covered with babies, none more than two years old. Most are dead, frozen, but she pulls one out. Taking the child, she runs away in the middle of a blizzard. She is found by Astrid and is taken in. Astrid is one of Europe’s leading aerialists, but with a war raging, she is not with her family circus. Instead, she is with her neighbor’s family circus. The Neuhoff Circus needs another aerialist, so Noa must take to the trapeze to earn her place in these strangers who become family. The young women become close. Almost as if they were sisters, watching out for each other. Noa kept the baby she stole and named him Theo. One of the major hurdles that they face, is that Astrid is Jewish. The story is the tale of the circus and its people. I loved reading about how Astrid trained Noa and circus life in the 1940s. The book ends with an epilogue that gives complete closure to all the supporting characters. It was nice to learn their fate. The story did get sluggish in the bottom part of the first third. I wanted to give The Orphan’s Tale receives 6 stars, but that blip caused me to award 5 out of 5 stars in Julie’s world. Review: Wake up "dream team." - Reviewer: D. Goin Pam Jenoff calls the folks at MIRA books her "dream team." Well, she'd better wake them up, because they let slip by--what? Call them style quirks-- and errors that, like leeches, suck blood from and bog dowm one of the best stoties I have read in yeatrs. Ms. Jenoff is clearly a great story teller, who has researched her work well and drawn her characters finely. One cam see, hear, smell, feel and even taste her scenes. Yet, I can agree with some of the one-star reviewers who call the tale boring. To me, "boring" is a bit harsh. Yet, one does become weary spending so much time in Noa and Astrid's heads, listening to backstory repeated endlessly and hearing for the umpteenth time how guilty Noa feels about lying about her past. We get it, okay? I mentioned style qrirks. Both Noa and Astrid appear to be all-knowing, forever in terpreting what other characters say. For ecample, Noa is the poin-of-view character observing Peter and Astrid. Peter says somerhing to. Astrid and Noa notes, "But she (Astrid) turns away from him, her pride too hurt to let him close." How in the world can Noa know why Astrid turns away. Noa might say, "But she turned away, as if her pride..." This psychoanaalysis by POV characters goes on throughout the book, imparting the wiadom of the author rather than of the characters. Another style quirk thar makes no sense to me is the interruption of dialogue to get back i nto the POV character's head. For example, in a scene where Astrid is the POV character and where Noa suggests she and Astrid help the workers putting up the tent, Astrid shakes her head and says, "No, let them do their work." Then we go into Astrid's head, when she thinks the following: We can no more help raise the tent than the workers can swing from the trapeze. Why not make this last sentence part of her response to Noa, which would, as dialogue always does, allow deepening characters and the conflict between them? Above, l also mentioned errors. I will point out two of the most prevalent: First, showing and telling at the same time. Showing is always better, but certainly not both. For example, in a scene where the police are arresting an old man and his granddaughter, the old man stalls for time "The policeman will hear none of it." (telling) "'Now," says the policeman. (showing). Telling is heavy-handed throughout the story. The second and more egregious error involves getting the past tense of verbs mixed up with the past perfect (pluperfect) tense. This happens frequently. For example, Astrid thinks, "I see his face more vividly than I had in months." This should read "...than I have in months." To use "had," she would need to establish a past event, before which something happened. She could think, for example, "I saw his face clearly, yesterday. I had not thought of him for months before that." Enough! This is a damn fine story I recommend it and plan to read more of Pam Jenoff's work. But please, dream team, wake up! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #29,614 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #163 in Historical World War II & Holocaust Fiction #193 in World War II Historical Fiction #1,899 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 19,158 Reviews | ## Images ![The Orphan's Tale: A Novel – A NYT Bestseller Historical Fiction Story of WWII Survival - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81DFeGLcUNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LOVED it *by J***T on July 7, 2017* I think NPR said it best: "Christina Baker Kline's ‘Orphan Train’ has collided with the circus caravan from Sara Gruen's ‘Water for Elephants,’ and out of wreck has come Pam Jenoff's ‘The Orphan's Tale.’ The novel is a magical carnival saga, a bit grittier than either of its antecedents, and with more at stake...Jenoff has written a tribute to the human spirit that soars in the midst of epic despair." And I ask you, “How could I pass this up?” In short, I didn’t. I quickly moved this one up to the top of my TBR pile and dug right in. We start with a prologue where an elderly woman makes her way into a new exhibit on European circuses. Based on the dust jacket, I know that it’s either Noa or Astrid. By the time I reached the prologue’s end, I was hooked. Then the story moves back in time to Germany, 1944. When Noa is sixteen, she is kicked out of her parents’ home when she discovers she is pregnant by a German officer. While we only see her after she has given up her baby, we see that she has lost none of that innocence that got her in the family way. Noa is cleaning a train station and lives in a closet. One night, a train pulls in. Thinking she hears a baby crying, Noa inspects the boxcars and finds a horrific sight. One of the cars’ floor is covered with babies, none more than two years old. Most are dead, frozen, but she pulls one out. Taking the child, she runs away in the middle of a blizzard. She is found by Astrid and is taken in. Astrid is one of Europe’s leading aerialists, but with a war raging, she is not with her family circus. Instead, she is with her neighbor’s family circus. The Neuhoff Circus needs another aerialist, so Noa must take to the trapeze to earn her place in these strangers who become family. The young women become close. Almost as if they were sisters, watching out for each other. Noa kept the baby she stole and named him Theo. One of the major hurdles that they face, is that Astrid is Jewish. The story is the tale of the circus and its people. I loved reading about how Astrid trained Noa and circus life in the 1940s. The book ends with an epilogue that gives complete closure to all the supporting characters. It was nice to learn their fate. The story did get sluggish in the bottom part of the first third. I wanted to give The Orphan’s Tale receives 6 stars, but that blip caused me to award 5 out of 5 stars in Julie’s world. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wake up "dream team." *by D***N on January 14, 2018* Reviewer: D. Goin Pam Jenoff calls the folks at MIRA books her "dream team." Well, she'd better wake them up, because they let slip by--what? Call them style quirks-- and errors that, like leeches, suck blood from and bog dowm one of the best stoties I have read in yeatrs. Ms. Jenoff is clearly a great story teller, who has researched her work well and drawn her characters finely. One cam see, hear, smell, feel and even taste her scenes. Yet, I can agree with some of the one-star reviewers who call the tale boring. To me, "boring" is a bit harsh. Yet, one does become weary spending so much time in Noa and Astrid's heads, listening to backstory repeated endlessly and hearing for the umpteenth time how guilty Noa feels about lying about her past. We get it, okay? I mentioned style qrirks. Both Noa and Astrid appear to be all-knowing, forever in terpreting what other characters say. For ecample, Noa is the poin-of-view character observing Peter and Astrid. Peter says somerhing to. Astrid and Noa notes, "But she (Astrid) turns away from him, her pride too hurt to let him close." How in the world can Noa know why Astrid turns away. Noa might say, "But she turned away, as if her pride..." This psychoanaalysis by POV characters goes on throughout the book, imparting the wiadom of the author rather than of the characters. Another style quirk thar makes no sense to me is the interruption of dialogue to get back i nto the POV character's head. For example, in a scene where Astrid is the POV character and where Noa suggests she and Astrid help the workers putting up the tent, Astrid shakes her head and says, "No, let them do their work." Then we go into Astrid's head, when she thinks the following: We can no more help raise the tent than the workers can swing from the trapeze. Why not make this last sentence part of her response to Noa, which would, as dialogue always does, allow deepening characters and the conflict between them? Above, l also mentioned errors. I will point out two of the most prevalent: First, showing and telling at the same time. Showing is always better, but certainly not both. For example, in a scene where the police are arresting an old man and his granddaughter, the old man stalls for time "The policeman will hear none of it." (telling) "'Now," says the policeman. (showing). Telling is heavy-handed throughout the story. The second and more egregious error involves getting the past tense of verbs mixed up with the past perfect (pluperfect) tense. This happens frequently. For example, Astrid thinks, "I see his face more vividly than I had in months." This should read "...than I have in months." To use "had," she would need to establish a past event, before which something happened. She could think, for example, "I saw his face clearly, yesterday. I had not thought of him for months before that." Enough! This is a damn fine story I recommend it and plan to read more of Pam Jenoff's work. But please, dream team, wake up! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow! Great Book! *by S***. on February 24, 2022* This is a book I would read again and again. Historical fiction that completely fascinated me. What a beautifully woven tale- but I could gush for pages. I remember when I was a kid and we learned about the Holocaust. I remember as a kid actually wondering if someone might have escaped Germany – as a Nazi – and moved to Thailand – because I met people who may have fit the description, as I was living in Thailand. I had learned enough in school and read enough on my own, even as an elementary-aged child, to have these thoughts. Yes, my imagination was always wild. The horseback riding instructors at the popular camp for young pre-teens in Thailand probably weren’t escaped Nazis. Even though they used to scrape our uneaten, chewed up bits of fried eggs off of our plates and eat them each morning. And shout in seemingly angry German (is there any other way?) at us as we tried to maneuver riding a horse. In the end, I was too sensitive for horseback riding camp. But, then as a high school graduate – yes, still a kid technically, at 17 years old – I made the trip to visit a concentration camp-turned-memorial in Austria. What a trip that was. To see the buildings, preserved as they were, kept intact to TEACH people what happened. Gas chambers, dissection tables, even blood stains still on the floor. Even at that age, as naive as I was on many levels, I knew the importance and that this must never happen again. And that I would fight injustice for the rest of my life. Bravo to Ms. Jenoff. Thank you for your writing. 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