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112 pp.
| Fogelman |
June, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-8037-2811-5$$15.99
(1)
4-6
Translated by Anthea Bell.
Through his dreams, a boy with severe birth defects travels sixty years back in time to Germany during the Third Reich; in the dreams he is a boy named Hannes, a "cripple." Hannes's father agrees to institutionalize, and perhaps kill, him--a betrayal the boy sees mirrored in the present in his family's attitudes about genetic testing. This spare, deeply felt novel adds a new dimension to Holocaust literature.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2003