![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was too busy looking for food and water and observing everything around him." A likable redhead, Jewish Srulik transforms himself into orphaned Christian Jurek, winning the hearts of the many Poles who decide to take him in. "In daytime, he rarely thought of his friends or felt lonely. We learn what happens, but we must construct our feelings about those happenings for ourselves. Part of the strength of Orlev's writing rests with its spareness: like his protagonist, Orlev does not waste words he resists embellishment. In this novel based on a Holocaust survivor's account, Srulik, a nine-year-old boy on the run in the Polish countryside, learns from his encounters with an assortment of strangers that he cannot reveal himself as Jew.
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