num_pages: 240
description: Gregor—a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family—is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance. But where, he asks, is God hiding? And where can one find redemption in a world that God has abandoned? In a story punctuated by friendship and fear, sacrifice and betrayal, Gregor's wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.
language: English
title: The Gates of the Forest
titlecomplete: The Gates of the Forest
genres: Jewish, 20th Century, Religion, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, War, Fiction, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 615
publisher: Schocken