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In this astonishing story that "reads like a thriller and is so, so timely" (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: "Like Anne Frank's diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard" (Booklist, starred review). In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo's eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn't bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. A "beautifully told story of personal discovery" (John le Carr ), When Time Stopped is an unputdownable detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life, and this "gripping, expertly researched narrative will inspire those looking to uncover their own family histories" (Publishers Weekly).

Las nicas pistas que tuvo ArianaNeumann de ni a sobre la vida de su padre--el empresario Hans Neumann-- antes de llegara la Venezuela que lo adopt eran una foto vieja de sus abuelos paternos, undocumento de identidad con un nombre falso y la pasi n de su pap porcoleccionar y arreglar relojes. Todo cambi cuando Hans muri yle dej a su hija una caja llena de cartas y documentos que ser n el punto departida para que Ariana se convierta la detective que siempre so ser. Su misi nser descubrir qu pas con esa familia de la que nunca supo mayor cosa y de suvida en Praga durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Los descubrimientos de la autorason un viaje a la memoria de una familia jud a destrozada por la Segunda GuerraMundial, la persecuci n y el Holocausto. Pero tambi n desentra an la valent ade un chico que evit ser transportado a los campos de concentraci n alesconderse a plena vista con una identidad falsa en Berl n, la capital delReich, de 1943 a 1945: su padre.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who built an industrial empire in Venezuela. When he died, he lefthis daughter a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated and start reading them. That was the seed for When Time Stopped, an epic family memoir. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life. In uncovering her father's story after all these years, she discovers nuance and depth to her own history and liberates poignant and thought-provoking truths about the threads of humanity that connect us all.

Tositarina miehestä, joka selvisi holokaustista ja salasi tyttäreltään kaiken.Ylistetty kirja on koukuttava salapoliisikertomus ja ajatuksia herättävä tositarina meitä kaikkia yhdistävistä ihmisyyden siteistä. ”Neumannin paljastama tositarina on kuin romaani täynnä jännittäviä juonenkäänteitä, uhkarohkeita rakkauden tekoja ja odottamattomia keveyden hetkiä synkkyyden keskellä.” -The New York TimesAriana Neumann haaveili lapsena salapoliisin työstä. Eräänä päivänä hän teki shokeeraavan löydön perheen dokumenttien seasta – hänen isänsä ei ollut se, kuka hän vaikutti olevan. Kun Arianan isä kuoli vuonna 2001, hän oli jättänyt jälkeensä ratkaisevan johtolangan: laatikollisen sota-aikaisia papereita. Ne avasivat oven isän menneisyyteen ja suvun salaisuuksiin. Alkoi vuosikymmeniä kestänyt salapoliisityö, jonka aikana Arianalle paljastui hänen sukunsa juutalaistausta Euroopassa. Pikkuhiljaa Arianalle selvisi koko ihmeellinen totuus hänen suvustaan ja isän sodan aikaisesta pakomatkasta natsien hallitsemasta Prahasta ainoaan mahdolliseen turvapaikkaan – Berliiniin.