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A Brand New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Parent Fiction AwardIn 1940 a child breaks from the dirt of the war torn Polish town, where he's hidden herself to full cover up from the soldiers who killed his family. His name is Jakob Ale. He's just seven yrs old. And though by all rights he must have discussed the fate of another Jews in his town, he's not just survived but been saved by a Greek geologist, who not identify the child as individual till he starts to weep.