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The acclaimed National Book Award finalist - "one of the United States' finest writers," according to Joshua Ferris, "full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity" - now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust."An understated and devastating novel of the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation, as seen through the eyes of a street-wise boy... Ordinary people reveal dimensions that are extraordinarily cruel or kind." - Kirkus ReviewsAron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution. He and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives by scuttling around the ghetto to smuggle and trade contraband through the quarantine walls in hopes of keeping their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police, not to mention the Gestapo.“Transcendent... [The Book of Aron] reminds us of the infinite varieties of good and evil, and of the many paradoxical places in between... Enormous power com

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Author
Jim Shepard
Publisher
Random House USA
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101874325
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military Fiction
Rating
3.68 / 5 (3,120 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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