Book description
Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the
Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside
world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced to move into a
tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved nine-year-old nephew,
Adam. One bitterly cold winter's day, Adam goes missing. The next
morning, his body is discovered in the barbed wire surrounding the
ghetto. The boy's leg has been cut off, and a tiny piece of string has
been left in his mouth. Soon, another body turns up -- this time a
girl's, and one of her hands has been taken. Evidence begins to point
to a Jewish traitor luring children to their death... In this
profoundly moving and darkly atmospheric historical thriller, the
reader is taken into the most forbidden corners of Nazi-occupied
Warsaw -- as well as into the most heroic places of the heart.
