Noah's child
By: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
Contributors: Hunter, Adriana
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781848874183
Subjects: Faith; World War, 1939-1945; Juvenile fiction; Jewish children; Fiction; Courage; Clergy; Orphanages
Work titles: Enfant de Noé
Description: It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is to conceal his Jewish heritage. Soon Joseph also discovers that Father Pons has a secret of his own: he is risking his life not only for the boys in his care, but for the future of the Jewish faith itself.