The Little Liar: A Novel

by Mitch Albom

Paperback, 2023

Collection

Status

Available

Call number

LP ALB

Barcode

36655004571069

Publication

Harper Large Print (2023), Edition: Large type / Large print, 400 pages

Description

Eleven-year-old Nico Crispi never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards "the east" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he loved, and all the others, to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico never tells the truth again. In his first novel set during the Holocaust, Mitch Albom interweaves the stories of Nico, his brother Sebastian, and their schoolmate Fanni, who miraculously survive the death camps and spend years searching for Nico, who has become a pathological liar, and the Nazi officer who radically changed their lives. As the decades pass, Albom reveals the consequences of what they said, did, and endured.… (more)

Language

Physical description

400 p.; 9 inches

Pages

400

ISBN

0063347695 / 9780063347694
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