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The Resource The book of Aron : a novel, Jim Shepard

The book of Aron : a novel, Jim Shepard

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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 goods 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. -- From the Hardcover edition
Language
eng
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource
Isbn
9781101912959
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The book of Aron : a novel
Title
The book of Aron
Title remainder
a novel
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Jim Shepard
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Contributor
Author
Narrator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 goods 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. -- From the Hardcover edition
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technical information on music
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TEFOD
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Shepard, Jim
Dewey number
813/.54
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not applicable
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LC call number
PS3569.H39384
LC item number
B77 2015eab
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
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Read by Michael Goldstrom
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1974-
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Goldstrom, Michael
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  • Jewish children in the Holocaust
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Poland
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adult
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The book of Aron : a novel, Jim Shepard
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online resource
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spoken word
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rdacontent
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Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
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online
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May be limited to subscribing institutions
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Isbn
9781101912959
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computer
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rdamedia
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sound
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Label
The book of Aron : a novel, Jim Shepard
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
not applicable
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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  • not applicable
  • unknown
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Governing access note
May be limited to subscribing institutions
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781101912959
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
unknown
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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66a5783f-81b9-46c9-8b06-fea6adbbfa40
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not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Speed
other
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  • (OCoLC)ocn906808287
  • (Sirsi) o906808287
  • (OCoLC)906808287
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