Před sebou neutečeš – Boyne John (2023)

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived for many years in one of five apartments in a luxurious building in the heart of London. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She never talks about how she fled Germany after the war. She doesn't speak of the post-war years she spent with her mother in France. And above all, she never mentions her father, the commander of one of the notoriously infamous Nazi concentration camps. ***** Then a young family moves into the ground-floor apartment. Gretel reluctantly befriends little Henry, even though his presence stirs up memories she would prefer to forget forever. One night, she witnesses a confrontation between Henry's mother and his abusive father, and her hard-won, solitary existence is suddenly threatened. ***** Gretel is given the opportunity to cleanse herself of her sins, to rid herself of guilt, sorrow, and regrets, and to save the little boy. However, this means she must reveal her true identity to the world. Will she decide differently this time and be able to bear the consequences of her actions? ***** Life on the Run, a sequel to the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, offers readers a beautiful and dramatic story of a woman who must confront her sins...