They Were Like Family to Me: Stories

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They Were Like Family to Me: Stories

Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize
Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature

â€œAn absolutely dazzling triumphâ€¦A singularly inventive collectionâ€ (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion.

1942. With the Nazi Party at the height of its monstrous power, Hitlerâ€™s SS fires up the new crematorium at Auschwitz and the occupying army empties Polandâ€™s towns and cities of their Jewish citizens. As neighbor turns on neighbor and survival depends on unthinkable choices, Poland has become a moral quagmire, a place of shifting truths and blinding ambiguities.

â€œFilled with rich attention to the details of flora and fauna and insightful descriptions of the nuances of rural and small-town lifeâ€ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Helen Maryles Shankman shows us the people of Wlodawa, a remote Polish town at a crossroads: we meet an SS officer dedicated to rescuing the creator of his sonâ€™s favorite picture book; a Messiah who announces that he is quitting; a Jewish girl who is hidden by an outspoken anti-Semiteâ€”and his talking dog. And walking among these tales are the enigmatic Willy Reinhart, Commandant of the forced labor camp who has grand schemes to protect â€œhisâ€ Jews, and Soroka, the Jewish saddlemaker and his family, struggling to survive.

â€œMoving and unsettling...Like Joyceâ€™s Dubliners, this book circles the same streets and encounters the same people as it depicts the horrors of Germanyâ€™s invasion of Poland through the microcosm of one village....A deeply humane demonstration of wringing art from catastropheâ€ (Kirkus Reviews), They Were Like Family to Me (originally called In the Land of Armadillos) is a testament to the persistence of humanity in the most inhuman conditions.
Country USA
Brand Scribner
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781501115219
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501115219

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781501115219
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501115219

They Were Like Family to Me: Stories

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