I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did too.
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Everything about this novel rings true.
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