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  • THE BOOK OF ARON. by Shepard, Jim.
    Shepard, Jim.
    THE BOOK OF ARON.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. SIGNED first edition - A novel 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…

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    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. SIGNED first edition - A novel 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 rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage."SIGNED on the title page. With a reported first printing of 50,000 copies, this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition. Different cover design. 260 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 78426
    View cart More details Price: $35.00