Wartime Lies (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ludwik Begleiter
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: War
- Time of Work: 1933-1945
- Setting: Poland
- Principal Characters: Maciek, Tania, Grandfather, Reinhard
- Genres: Long fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, World War II, Guilt, Emotions, Jews or Jewish life, Blackmail, Truthfulness and falsehood, Survivalism, Catholics or Catholic Church, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people
- Locales: Poland
The Novel
Wartime Lies recounts the experiences of Maciek and his aunt Tania during World War II. Polish Jews, they elude capture by the Nazis by posing as Aryans, but in their journey through cities and villages, cellars and rented rooms, they witness horrific scenes of German brutality that scar Maciek for life.
Maciek, now a man in his fifties, recollects his childhood in Poland, beginning in 1933. Through his eyes, readers see everything. The only child of a Jewish physician in the small town of T., he leads a pampered life. His mother dies in childbirth, so...
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