"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives—as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.
An exquisite, acclaimed, novel of the Holocaust, as seen through the eyes of a young Polish boy. "A remarkable, elegiac novel."--Time. Chosen by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year. Nominated for the National Book Award. Winner of the 1991 Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize.
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