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The story of Jozsef Sondor, a tough, irreverently witty Jewish boy growing up in World War II Hungary, carries readers into the whirl of everyday life in war-torn Budapest, from the eve of the Holocaust in Hungary to Russian liberation in 1945. Through his eyes, we witness history, or, as he sees it, the adult world gone mad. What is this "Jewish problem," he asks. And what can God be thinking of? Jozsef soon finds that his questions have no simple answers, but they do lead him on a journey to understanding the war, politics, religion, and, in the end, the complexity of human nature.
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3 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 1997Battlefields and playgroundsBrandeis University Press · 536 pages · 9780874518016
- Other · English · 1995Battlefields and playgroundsFarrar, Straus, and Giroux · 536 pages · 9780374109189
- Other · Hungarian · 1990MadárországMakkábi · 411 pages · 9789637392719
FictionHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)World War, 1939-1945HistoryNew York Times reviewedFiction, generalHungary, fictionBudapest (hungary), fiction