Wynn Wheldon

‘It’s always wrong to starve’

Jim Shepard’s novel The Book of Aron tells (with the bitterest black humour) the little-known story of a real-life paediatrician who devoted his life to the orphans of the Warsaw ghetto

  • The Book of Aron

    Jim Shepard

    Quercus, pp. 240

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