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"Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], 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 ... When his family is finally stripped away from him,...

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Main Author: Shepard, Jim
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred. A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Poland > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Poland.
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Summary:"Aron, [a child living in World War II Poland], 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 ... 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 childrens' rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage. Treblinka awaits them all, but does Aron manage to escape--as his mentor suspected he could--to spread word about the atrocities?"--Amazon.com.
Physical Description:259 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781101874318 (hardcover)
1101874317 (hardcover)
9781101872741 (trade pbk.)
1101872748 (trade pbk.)
Author Notes:Jim Shepard was born on December 29, 1956 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a BA from Trinity College and a MFA from Brown University. He teaches creative writing and film at Williams College and in the Warren Wilson MFA program. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US and Canada. His short story collection, Like You'd Understand, won the 2007 Story Prize. His other short story collections include Battling against Castro, Love and Hydrogen, and You Think That's Bad. He won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award for his novel, Project X. His other novels include Flights, Paper Doll, Lights Out in the Reptile House, Kiss of the Wolf, Nosferatu, and The Book of Aron.

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