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020			_a9781101874318
050	0	0	_aPS3569.H39384 _bB77 2015
082	1		_aFIC SHE _2
100	1		_aShepard, Jim
245	1	4	_aThe book of Aron : _ba novel _c/ Jim Shepard.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2015
300			_a259 p. _c; 20 cm
520	3		_aA novel that will join the shortlist about the Holocaust and the children caught up in it. Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy whose family is driven from the countryside into the Warsaw Ghetto. As his family is slowly stripped away from him, Aron and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives, smuggling and trading things through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police (not to mention the Gestapo). Eventually Aron is "rescued" by Janusz Korczak, a Jewish-Polish doctor and advocate of children's rights famous throughout prewar Europe who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the ghetto orphanage. In the end, of course, he and his staff and all the children are put on a train to Treblinka, but has Aron managed to escape, to spread word about the atrocities, as Korczak hoped he would? Jim Shephard has made this child's-eye view of the Warsaw Ghetto mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, and truly heartbreaking.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aJewish children in the Holocaust _z-Poland _v--Fiction
650		4	_aHolocaust, Jewish, 1939-1945 _x-Fiction
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _v--Fiction
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