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This masterpiece is a brilliant work of black humor that has taken its place as a classic novel about the Holocaust. Set in Poland, it is the story of I. C. Trumpleman, the indiscreet director of an orphanage. When the Germans invade and the Jewish community is forced into a ghetto, Trumpleman becomes the leading figure caught in making choices about who will live and who will starve.
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"Remarkable. A lesson in what artistic restraint can do to help us imagine the dark places in our history."
New York Times Book Review
"The first novel about the Holocaust that manages to be adequate to its own ambition."
New York Magazine
"The best book yet to be written on the Holocaust. A superb novel."
San Francisco Chronicle