(Ebook) A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert ISBN 9780804168809, 0804168806

(Ebook) A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert ISBN 9780804168809, 0804168806

From the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room a startling portrait of the Nazis' arrival in Ukraine as they move to implement the final solution.“Seiffert packs a great deal into a small amount of space. Her prose style resembles a cello onstage played in the pitch dark. Sonorous and sombre and yet what use it make of just a few notes... [She] is such a patient and poised storyteller that, even though history tells us otherwise, like all the characters in the book, we read toward its terrible climax believing - perhaps it will not happen.”  -  John Freeman, Boston GlobeOtto Pohl, an engineer overseeing construction of a German road in Ukraine, awakens to the unexpected sight of SS men herding hundreds of Jews into an old brick factory. Inside the factory, Ephraim anxiously scans the growing crowd, looking for his two sons. As anxious questions swirl around him "Where are they taking us? How long will we be gone?" he can't quell the suspicion that it would be just like his oldest son to hole up somewhere instead of lining up for the Germans and just like his youngest to follow...Yasia, a farmer's daughter who has come into town to sell produce, sees two young boys slinking through the shadows of the deserted streets and decides to offer them shelter..."Seiffert favours a spare, unexaggerated style... The power of her writing comes not from emotional manipulation or verbal fireworks but from her marshalling of the sort of visual detail that makes her settings feel almost tangible, and from the bonds, she builds between her wary characters, who, like it or not, must accept their need for one another..."  -  Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book ReviewRachel Seiffert's prose is rich with a rare compassion, courage, and emotional depth, thus that the story being told is one of survival, of conflicting senses of duty, of the oppressive power of fear and the possibility of courage i