Title: The orphan's tale
Description: Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
Subjects: History, Jews, World War, 1939-1945, Circus, Teenage mothers, Fiction, Jews, fiction, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-03-12, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Germany, France
Time periods: German occupation, 1940-1945