“Stories of Hope”, the new book by Heather Morris

The name of Heather Morris became world famous among readers thanks to his book “The Auschwitz Tattoo Artist”, which has become one of the best-selling titles of our time, a sort of contemporary classic. In its pages, the author relies on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovak Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust.

The novel tells how Lale’s days unfold, between horror and his work as a tattoo artist for prisoners, including Gita, a beautiful young woman with whom he falls madly in love. At this point, says the back cover of the book, Lale’s life takes on new meaning and he will do everything possible to ensure that Gita and the rest of the prisoners survive.

After the war, despite everything, Gita and Lale manage to get ahead and decide to move to Australia to start their new life. Years later, when Gita dies, Lale feels he must tell everything to put the past behind him. This is the story that Morris ends up recording in this book.

You may be interested: The book that had everything not to be a success and has more than 30 editions and 8 awards

The book was released in 2018 and now, five years later, having delivered readers titles like “The Three Sisters” there “Cilka’s Journey”the public author “Stories of Hope», the essential complement to the history of “The Auschwitz Tattoo Artist”.

On 320 pages, Heather Morris offers readers an inspirational handbook for life, filled with emotionally charged stories from diverse people he has met and shared with. Their stories allow you to reflect on a series of lessons that will teach more than one thing to anyone who reads this book.

Changing sides a little, Morris devotes himself to telling, not the story of others, but his own, his career as a writer and the experiences of his life, his friendship with Lale Sokolov, the tattoo artist from Aushwitz-Birkenau, and the inspiration for his works. Demonstrating her talent for listening to others, the writer tells how she learned to relate to people and develop those skills that she considers essential and that we can and must all learn.

You may be interested: The 12 finalists for the Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize are here

Heather Morris He has resided in Australia for several years. Originally from New Zealand, she studied social work and screenwriting; he worked as a screenwriter for several years and one of his screenplays was honored at the Academy. In 2003, without even looking for him, he met Lale Sokolov, already entered in years. Its story has allowed Morris to write his most successful book, 8 one of the most important publishing phenomena of recent years.

You may be interested: Alice Kellen: “With writing, even if you can’t do something, there will always be a lot to do”

From the interest aroused by one of the characters in this story, Cilka Klein, was born “Cilka’s Journey”the book in which Morris tells the story of a Jewish prisoner who became the concubine of one of the commanders of Auschwitz-Birkenau, who was saved from starvation, disease and knew how to escape the gas chambers.

At just sixteen years old, Cilka is facing one of the most difficult times of her life. At the end of the war, she was accused of collaborating and spying with the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. Packed into a cattle train, she was transported to Vorkuta, where she had to serve a ten-year sentence and forced labor. Fortunately for her, however, Cilka manages to become an assistant in the gulag’s infirmary and there meets Ivan Kovac, with whom she will later fall in love.

It is thanks to Kovac that Cilka finds hope in humanity and the desire to continue living, she will find faith, generosity and will remain attached to the idea of ​​love.

Continue reading: