Wartime Lies
by:
Louis Begley (author)
Lee Cohen (author)
Mona Golabek (author)
"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw...
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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 JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives—as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.From the Paperback edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780449001172 (0449001172)
ASIN: 449001172
Publish date: October 15th 1997
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
World War II,
English Literature,
Holocaust,
Poland