- Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, World War, 1939-1945
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Uri Orlev
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 162
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, Perfection Learning, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780833580856
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First sentence
“I woke up.”
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