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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 JOURNAL As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no... Read Full Overview

"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no... Read Full Overview

"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret... the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose is] compelling in its simplicity."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw... Read Full Overview

Poland 1939. The comfortable secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Maciek's father disappears into the war's vortex leaving the orphaned child with his acerbic and beautiful Aunt Tania. It is her cool inventiveness in their dramatic... Read Full Overview