The Book of Aron - Paperback
by Jim Shepard
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jim ShepardSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2016-05-03Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781101872741ISBN-10:1101872748UPC:9781101872741Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, JewishSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SC9EH4RSSG
Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions. Officially confined to the Jewish quarter, with hunger, vermin, disease and death all around him, Aron makes his way from apprentice to master smuggler until finally, with everyone for whom he cared stripped away from him, his only option is Janusz Korczak, the renowned doctor, children's rights advocate, and radio host who runs a Jewish orphanage. And Korczak in turn awakens the humanity inside the boy.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781101872741ISBN-10:1101872748UPC:9781101872741Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, JewishSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5Product ID:SC9EH4RSSG
JIM SHEPARD is the author of six previous novels and four story collections, including Like You'd Understand, Anyway, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in, among other magazines, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Esquire, Tin House, Granta, Zoetrope, Electric Literature, and Vice, and has often been selected for The Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children, and teaches at Williams College.
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