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Paperback. Pub Date :2007-01-04 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books Poland. 1939. The comfortable. secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Macieks father disappears into the wars vortex . leaving the orphaned child with his acerbic and beautiful Aunt Tania. It is her cool inventiveness. in their dramatic flight through a landscape of oppression. that will ensure their fragile survival.
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Louis Begley was born in 1933 in Poland. Among his novels are Wartime Lies (1991), About Schmidt (1996), Mistler's Exit (1998), Schmidt Delivered (2000), Shipwreck (2003). He has received the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Fiction Award, the Irish Times - Aer Lingus Book Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger (all for Wartime Lies), and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He lives in New York.
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In Poland, in 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 flight through a landscape of oppression, that will ensure their fragile survival.
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