The Wind Knows My Name

The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration (People), from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta Allende s storytelling walks a lyrical romanticism on roads imposed by social and political turmoil. NPR Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht the night his family loses everything. As her child s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.