Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper's Wife

A War Story

A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

"An inspiring read that may join Schindler's List and Hotel Rwanda as popular accounts of heroism in the face of genocide."—Salt Lake Tribune

"Fresh and compelling. ... Ackerman has succeeded in a vivid, cinematically written book that's bound to find its way to the screen."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A lovely story about the Holocaust might seem like a grotesque oxymoron. But ... Diane Ackerman proves otherwise. Here is a true story—of human empathy and its opposite—that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful."—Washington Post Book World

"Absolutely compelling. ... Ackerman, who researches intensely, makes beautiful work of harrowing tales of [her characters'] determination to keep souls alive, in the actual and metaphorical sense both."—New York Daily News

"[Ackerman] luxuriates in sensory exploration and metaphor. ... It's a tribute to her talent that the book feels both triumphant and inevitable by the last page."—Orion

Diane Ackerman is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, among many other books. She lives in upstate New York.