The Book of Aron

Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution He and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives by scuttling around the ghetto to smuggle and trade contraband through the quarantine walls in hopes of keeping their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters alive, hunted all the while by blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police, not to mention the Gestapo.When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of children s rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in charge of the Warsaw orphanage Treblinka awaits them all, but does Aron manage to escape as his mentor suspected he could to spread word about the atrocities Jim Shepard has masterfully made this child s eye view of the darkest history mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, truly heartbreaking, and even inspiring Anyone who hears Aron s voice will remember it forever. Free Read [ The Book of Aron ] Author [ Jim Shepard ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr In the summer of 1942, German soldiers expelled almost 200 starving children from an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and packed them into rail cars bound for Treblinka As with so many entries in the encyclopedia of Nazi atrocities, the depravity of that act and our inability to fathom such cruelty threaten to eclipse the individuality of the victims.Historians push back against the obliteration of chaos, time and shame, but talented novelists have also offered their creative gifts in this sacred In the summer of 1942, German soldiers expelled almost 200 starving children from an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and packed them into rail cars bound for Treblinka As with so many entries in the encyclopedia of Nazi atrocities, the depravity of that act and our inability to fathom such cruelty threaten to eclipse the individuality of the victims.Historians push back against the obliteration of chaos, time and shame, but talented novelists have also offered their creative gifts in this sacred process of remembrance And now, Jim Shepard, one of America s finest writers, brings the Warsaw orphanage to life in The Book of Aron Drawing on his imagination and dozens of historical sources, the author has produced a remarkable novel destined to join the shelf of essential Holocaust literature Al...Aron was a young boy living with his mom and dad in a nice house in the Warsaw countryside When Hitler invades Poland all Jews are gathered up and relocated to what will become known as the Warsaw ghetto I, think this is the first book I have read that takes place only in the ghetto The people starving, a street smart Aaron and a group of young boys find ways to get out of the ghetto to bring back much needed items The ghetto gets smaller and smaller as many come down with typhus and whole s Aron was a young boy living with his mom and dad in a nice house in the Warsaw countryside When Hitler invades Poland all Jews are gathered up and relocated to what will become known as the Warsaw ghetto I, think this is the first book I have read that takes p...De Sapo a Pr ncipe Esta narrativa flui num tom monoc rdico , com a musicalidade dum teclado de m quina de escrever Acontecimentos atrozes s o nos transmitidos sem sombra de emo o, o que nos leva a questionar sobre a ndole do nosso jovem narrador Que monstrozinho ser este, que n o se compadece com a desgra a alheia De facto, uma analise superficial conduzir a uma reac o dessa estirpe Por m, se cavarmos mais fundo, n o faltar o raz es que justifiquem comportamento t o ins lito Antes da invas De Sapo a Pr ncipe Esta narrativa flui num tom monoc rdico , com a musicalidade dum teclado de m quina de escrever Acontecimentos atrozes s o nos transmitidos sem sombra de emo o, o que nos leva a questionar sobre a ndole do nosso jovem narrador Que monstrozinho ser este, que n o se compadece com a desgra a alheia De facto, uma analise superficial conduzir a uma reac o dessa estirpe Por m, se cavarmos mais fundo, n o faltar o raz es que justifiquem comportamento t o ins lito Antes da invas o da Pol nia , Aron era um jovem indigente, provocador, mostrando se desmotivado por tudo Os adultos replicavam com infind veis castigos e repreens es, ao inv s de procurarem despertar o seu lado melhor O Aron s se p...I d read such rave reviews of this novel set in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War, and I ve always meant to try something by Jim Shepard, so this seemed an ideal place to start I got to page 53, about 19% of the way through, and decided to stop because although this is a fairly believable child s voice, it is only being used to convey information To me the spark of personality and the pull of storytelling are lacking I felt li... The Book of Aron is narrated in the first person by Aron R ycki, a poor Jewish boy from Panevezys, a town in then northern Poland, near the Lithuanian border After his father finds work at a factory in Warsaw, Aron and his family move to the capital with hope of improving their life, which is extremely short lived the Germans invade and quickly win their short war with Poland, and soon all of Warsaw s Jews end up being stripped of their possessions and forced to move to a specifically devel The Book of Aron is narrated in the first person by Aron R ycki, a poor Jewish boy from Panevezys, a town in then northern Poland, near the Lithuanian border After his father finds work at a factory in Warsaw, Aron and his family move to the capital with hope of improving their life, which is extremely short lived the Germans invade and quickly win their short war with Poland, and soon all of Warsaw s Jews end up being stripped of their possessions and forced to move to a specifically developed ghetto Disease, squalor and extreme poverty are commonplace, and even little children have to struggle to survive This is Jim Shepard s first novel inthan ten years, and my introduction to his work This particular subject is an interest...When my niece was just a few years old, her family dog died in his sleep as a result of advanced old age When my sister tried to explain that the dog was gone, my niece looked at her, baffled, and said, But where s the blood It was inconceivable to her that something as monumental as death could be so seemingly ordinary I m starting my review this way because I have read many reviews that criticize The Book of Aron for the reportorial and too often flat voice of the narrator But for me, tha When my niece was just a few years old, her family dog died in his sleep as a result of advanced old age When my sister tried to explain that the dog was gone, my niece looked at her, baffled, and said, But where s the blood It was inconceivable to her that something as monumental as death could be so seemingly ordinary I m starting my review this way because I have read many reviews that cri...This is an incredibly moving novel , written from the perspective of a young boy, named Aron Rozycki Aron begins his early childhood living in Panevzys, near the Lithuanian border When his father is offered a job in a factory, the family move to Warsaw to try to escape the poverty that is grinding the family down However, when the Germans invade Poland, Aron finds that his life, and that of his family, becomes harder andrestricted The area they live in becomes part of the Warsaw Ghetto This is an incredi...4 Stars Fantastic booksSome spoilers ahead, some hidden and some not, proceed at your own discretion This is one of the best fictional Holocaust books I ve ever read, as bleak as that sounds Jim Shepard writes a story that s unlike anything I ve ever read before There are so many books about the Holocaust that it can be hard to stand out but Jim Shepard managed to do just that He s written a devastatingly unique story that kept me engaged until the very end.Shepard tells the story of Aron 4 Stars Fantastic booksSome spoilers ahead, some hidden and some not, proceed at your own discretion This ...I will have to wipe the tears from my eyes to write a review This book was extraordinary Powerful A masterpiece I predict it will become a classic of Holocaust literature As a children s bookseller, I read this with the idea that it might work in school curriculum WWII Holocaust studies, since the narrator is a child Will it The answer is yes, and largely for the reasons that it s so powerful The writing is extremely simple, very direct, from the point of a view of a kid with little or I will have to wipe the tears from my eyes to write a review This book was extraordinary Powerful A masterpiece I predict it will become a classic of Holocaust literature As a children s bookseller, I read this with the idea that it might work in school curriculum WWII Holocaust studies, since the narrator is a child Will it The answer is yes, and largely for the reasons that it s so powerful The writing is extremely simple, very direct, from the point of a view of a kid with lit...For a Holocaust book, I found this unbelievably emotionless The prose was almost as if a newspaper reporter had written it just the facts I m not sure if that was Shepard s intent, but it makes for a very sterile, removed read about a subject that is normally beyond heartbreaking.

• English
• 19 August 2017
Jim Shepard
• Hardcover
• 260 pages
• 1101874317
• Jim Shepard
• The Book of Aron