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A lauded ´masterpiece´ that tells with compassion and humour the story of Janusz Korczak, a hero of the Polish Jewish ghetto

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD
´Powerful . . . shattering . . . a masterpiece´ The Times
´Testament of love and sacrifice . . . a masterpiece´ Joshua Ferris, Guardian
´Transcendent and timeless . . . masterpiece´ Washington Post

Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a troublemaker. His mother despairs of him. His father beats him. He tries to be good. But in 1939, as the walls go up around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, as lice and typhus rage, families starve and fight, it is Aron who finds a way - however dangerous, however treacherous - to survive. It isn´t until he lands at the feet of Janusz Korczak - orphanage director and reluctant hero - that he learns of something greater than survival.

With new exclusive endmatter, featuring a biography of Korczak and questions for book clubs

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The Book of Aron is a novel of profound and delicate simplicity - passivity, almost - but one which calmly and indelibly delivers the bluntest of impacts. In other words, it´s a knock-out (though you never saw it coming) Jim Crace

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Shepard, Jim
Jim Shepard is the National Book Award-finalist and highly acclaimed author of seven novels and five collections of stories, including The Book of Aron and Like You´d Understand, Anyway. He lives in Massachusetts with his family and teaches creative writing at the historic liberal arts establishment Williams College. Widely acclaimed as one of the US´s finest writers, The World to Come is the first collection of his short stories to be published in the UK.

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