The Book of Aron: A Novel - Jim Shepard
Category: Novel
Narrator: Michael Goldstrom
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Literature
Hat off to the ripper/procurer!, The acclaimed National Book Award finalist one of the United States finest writers, according to Joshua Ferris, full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust., Aron, the narrator, 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. He and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives by scuttling around the ghetto to smuggle and trade contraband through the quarantine walls in hopes of keeping their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police, not to mention the Gestapo., 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
