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Maciek, a young Jewish orphan, and his beautiful, resourceful aunt, Tania, struggle to survive the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust in Poland by posing as Catholics to fool both the Gestapo and Polish collaborators
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"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives—as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.From the Paperback edition.
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