The book of Aron

Author

Jim Shepard

Call Number

• FICTION SHEP (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred. A. Knopf, 2015.

Physical Description

259 pages ; 20 cm

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?

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.