The Book of Aron: A novel

The Book of Aron: A novel

The acclaimed National Book Award finalistâ€”â€œone of the United Statesâ€™ finest writers,â€ according to Joshua Ferris, â€œfull of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosityâ€â€”now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust.

Aron, 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.

When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of childrenâ€™s rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage. Treblinka awaits them all, but does Aron manage to escapeâ€”as his mentor suspected he couldâ€”to spread word about the atrocities?Â
Jim Shepard has masterfully made this childâ€™s-eye view of the darkest history mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, truly heartbreaking, and even inspiring. Anyone who hears Aronâ€™s voice will remember it forever.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-05-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101874318

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-05-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101874318

The Book of Aron: A novel

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