02946cam a2200325 4500 528578450 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101912966 1101912960 66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa40 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1901990 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shepard, Jim. The Book of Aron [Libby] : A novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 155MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 155MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust. 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. Media Type: Audiobook. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Goldstrom, Michael. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1901990-TheBookOfAron.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=66A5783F-81B9-46C9-8B06-FEA6ADBBFA40&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1901990-TheBookOfAron.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=66A5783F-81B9-46C9-8B06-FEA6ADBBFA40&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)