The Zookeeper's Wife
Trade paperback edition in good condition with slight wear to cover. The inspiration for the movie by the same name.
“God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made—to our peril.”
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these “guests,” and human names for the animals, it’s no wonder that the zoo’s code name became “The House Under a Crazy Star.” Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story—sharing Antonina’s life as “the zookeeper’s wife,” while examining the obsessions at the core of Nazism.
Trade paperback edition in good condition with slight wear to cover. The inspiration for the movie by the same name.
“God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made—to our peril.”
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these “guests,” and human names for the animals, it’s no wonder that the zoo’s code name became “The House Under a Crazy Star.” Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story—sharing Antonina’s life as “the zookeeper’s wife,” while examining the obsessions at the core of Nazism.
Trade paperback edition in good condition with slight wear to cover. The inspiration for the movie by the same name.
“God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made—to our peril.”
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these “guests,” and human names for the animals, it’s no wonder that the zoo’s code name became “The House Under a Crazy Star.” Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story—sharing Antonina’s life as “the zookeeper’s wife,” while examining the obsessions at the core of Nazism.
ISBN 978-0-393-33306-0
Diane Ackerman
2007