WHEN TIME STOPPED A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains

**Winner of the ‘Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2021**

**WINNER of the 2020 ‘National Jewish Book Award’ for best memoir**

A New York Times Bestseller | A Financial Times and Daily Mail ‘Book of the Week’ | A 2020 ‘Goodreads Choice Awards’ Nominee

A Washington Post Bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick | A Bookpage Readers Choice Best books of 2020 | A Barnes & Noble ‘Pick of the Month’

Recommended by Newsweek, Vogue, Hey Alma, Buzzfeed, The Sydney Morning Herald, Goodreads, Independent booksellers of America (Indie Next List)

**Shortlisted for the ‘Wingate Prize 2021’**

“The story Neumann uncovers is worthy of fiction with hairpin plot twists, daredevil acts of love and unexpected moments of humor in dark times. Given the slew of colorful characters and dramatic details, she could have turned her painstaking research into a historical novel. Instead she has written a superb family memoir that unfolds its poignant power on multiple levels. Yes, her account of one Jewish-Czech family’s race to outwit the Nazis makes for thrilling reading. But just as important is her lucid investigation of the nature of memory, identity and remembrance.” —The New York Times Book Review

Available from:

Scribner, US: February 4, 2020
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Scribner, UK: February 20, 2020
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Simon & Schuster, Australia and New Zealand: March 1, 2020
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Argo, Czech Republic (with the title “Pod svícnem tma”): May 2020
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Les Escales, France: September 2021

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Editorial Planeta , Colombia, US : 2023

Politiken Verlag, Denmark (Available November 2021)

Editora 20/20, Portugal: 2022 (Available January 2022)

Into Kustannus, Finland: 2022

Shanghai Naquan Cultural Diffusion Co., China 2024 (Available soon)

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“Profound, gripping, and gut-wrenching…This heartbreaking and unforgettable memoir belongs in every library for the important history Neumann unearths. Like Anne Frank's diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard.” — Booklist (Starred Review)

"When Time Stopped is a beautifully told story of personal discovery, of almost unimaginable human bravery and sacrifice, and a harrowing portrait of living, dying, and surviving under the yoke of Nazism." — John le Carré, bestselling author of Agent Running in the Field, Little Drummer Girl and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“We both survived the Holocaust. Part of our childhoods were spent in hiding and in the concentration camp of Terezín. We lived through events and knew some of the people so perfectly and creatively depicted in these pages. It is a story that has crossed the world, but it vitally confirms our experience as survivors and carries our same message of hope: Nothing will be forgotten. All will be passed down and remembered. Thank you Ariana Neumann for writing this book.” — Helena Klímová and Ivan Klíma, writer and playwright

“Ariana Neumann's beautiful, meticulously researched memoir is an extraordinarily moving story of a family’s lost history, a father’s well-kept secret, and a daughter who pieces it all together with courage, tenacity, and most of all, love.” — Dani Shapiro, best-selling author of Inheritance, Hourglass and Family History

“This book is utterly riveting: Ms. Neumann's memoir reads like a detective novel.” — Claire Messud, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs

"Through her painstaking work Neumann takes lifeless fragments ensuring her family's obscurity, and magically brings them back to life in this carefully woven beautifully written tapestry. This is a work of resistance against oblivion, a reminder against forgetting, an investigation driven by true love." — Stephen D. Smith, PhD, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education

“WHEN TIME STOPPED is beautiful- deeply moving and extraordinary in its reach and its depth. I felt such kinship with the way in which Ariana Neumann moved through the world in her journey. It is absolutely remarkable.”— Edmund de Waal, artist and bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes and The White Road

“When Time Stopped is more than just history. It’s a warning.”
—Michael Palin