By National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard, a deeply affecting novel that will join the shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children whose lives were caught up in it. For readers of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl , Kenneally's Schindler's List ; Szpilman's The Pianist ; Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces ; Markus Zusack's The Book Thief ; the works of Pimo Levi and Elie Weisel and Michael Chabon. When we meet Aron, he is a beguiling and perceptive and not always happy young boy coming into ...
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By National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard, a deeply affecting novel that will join the shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children whose lives were caught up in it. For readers of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl , Kenneally's Schindler's List ; Szpilman's The Pianist ; Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces ; Markus Zusack's The Book Thief ; the works of Pimo Levi and Elie Weisel and Michael Chabon. When we meet Aron, he is a beguiling and perceptive and not always happy young boy coming into awareness of himself and his family's struggles. When soon they are driven from the countryside into Warsaw, their lives are changed forever. Aron and a group of boys and girls risk their lives scuttling around the ghetto, smuggling and trading things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive, while they are hunted by blackmailers and Jewish and Polish and German police, as gradually things catastrophically worsen, people begin to disappear, and survival is threatened on all sides. Eventually, Aron comes to know Janusz Korczak, a Jewish-Polish doctor famous for his advocacy of children's rights, whose orphanage was relocated to the ghetto once the Nazis swept in. In the end, he and the children he takes care of, Aron among them, are brought to the station to be put on a train to Treblinka. The Book of Aron is a breathtaking novel of extraordinary craft, humanity, and masterful storytelling. Fearless, and devoid of sentimentality, it looks squarely into the face of unspeakable suffering, evil and lawlessness, revealing the persistence and strength of the human spirit despite all odds and the redemptive power of love. It is nothing less than a masterpiece.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0771079982. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 7.60 X 5 X 1.30 inches; 272 pages.
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Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 0771079982. Soiling to top edge of text block and to rear board. PO name in ink on ffep. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 7.60 X 5 X 1.30 inches; 272 pages.
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0771079982. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Denting to top and bottom of board, light bruising to top of d/j.; 7.60 X 5 X 1.30 inches; 272 pages.
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Fine (-) in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Inscribed By Author (CAD) 1sst printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "To J------/ who was really patient/ All best/ Jim Shepard/ Vancouver 2015", no other markings, about Fine in unclipped VG dust jacket with tiny tear to top corner of front flap fold and small attendant crease. Hardcover, 260pp. This is a coming of age novel set in the Jewish ghetto as the Nazis swept into Waraw Poland. Shepard lives in Massachusetts. (1.5 JM ITX46.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Complete number line from 1 to 6; signed by Jim Shepard on the title page with no inscription at the Vancouver International Writers Festival; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean, read only once copy of this collectible book.
