Specifications
| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141188690 |
| ISBN 10 | 141188693 |
| Author | Louis Begley |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | 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 flight through a landscape of oppression, that will ensure their fragile survival. |
| About the Author | 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. |
| Publication Date | 2007-01-04 |
| Number of Pages | 208 pages |
Wartime Lies
Added to cart
Cart Total 0.00
