The book of Aron
By: Jim Shepard
Publisher: Quercus; Quercus Publishing Plc; Quercus Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781848667396; 9781784290290; 9781784290313
Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish ghettos; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Warsaw, Poland, 1939. My mother and father named me Aron, but my father said they should have named me What Have You Done or What Were You Thinking. Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a troublemaker. As the walls go up around the ghetto in Warsaw, as the lice and typhus rage, food is stolen and even Jewish police betray their people, Aron smuggles from the other side to survive. In a place where no one thinks of anyone but himself, the only exception is Doctor Korczak; children's rights activist and embattled orphanage director. They call the Doctor a hero. Aron is not a hero. He is not special or selfless or spirited. He is ordinary. He is willing to do what the Doctor will not.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.