The Book of Aron
by Jim Shepard
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Pub Date May 12 2015 | Archive Date Apr 27 2015
Hachette Australia | Quercus
Description
The Warsaw ghetto seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy, in a heartbreaking novel commemorating the famous Doctor Korczak, saver of children.
Warsaw, Poland, 1939.
My mother and father named me Aron, but my father said they should have named me What Have You Done or What Were You Thinking.
Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a troublemaker. As the walls go up around the ghetto in Warsaw, as the lice and typhus rage, food is stolen and even Jewish police betray their people, Aron smuggles from the other side to survive.
In a place where no one thinks of anyone but himself, the only exception is Doctor Korczak; trying to keep a hundred and fifty orphans from starving.
They call the Doctor a hero. Aron is not a hero. He is not special or selfless or spirited. He is ordinary.
He is willing to do what the Doctor will not.
Warsaw, Poland, 1939.
My mother and father named me Aron, but my father said they should have named me What Have You Done or What Were You Thinking.
Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a troublemaker. As the walls go up around the ghetto in Warsaw, as the lice and typhus rage, food is stolen and even Jewish police betray their people, Aron smuggles from the other side to survive.
In a place where no one thinks of anyone but himself, the only exception is Doctor Korczak; trying to keep a hundred and fifty orphans from starving.
They call the Doctor a hero. Aron is not a hero. He is not special or selfless or spirited. He is ordinary.
He is willing to do what the Doctor will not.
Advance Praise
Jim Shepard has written a Holocaust novel that stands with the most powerful writing on that terrible subject - John Irving
Jim Shepard has written a Holocaust novel that stands with the most powerful writing on that terrible subject - John Irving
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781848667396 |
| PRICE | A$29.99 (AUD) |
