A dark-haired, olive-skinned boy is forced to fend for himself during the war and wander alone from one Slav village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, sometimes sheltered and taught. This is a portrayal of the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, seen through the eyes of a boy.
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A dark-haired, olive-skinned boy is forced to fend for himself during the war and wander alone from one Slav village to another, sometimes hounded and tortured, sometimes sheltered and taught. This is a portrayal of the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, seen through the eyes of a boy.
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Incredible story of a childhood in war torn eastern Europe. Kosinski paints a bleak, haunting story of a world unknown to those of us who grew up in modern America.
CARLOS V
Jul 14, 2012
violent but truthful
it's not an autobiography, but it feels like a compressed, symbolic memoir of "the other" of europe; whether jewish, gypsy, or simply the outsider, it is a great story of the journey of one child through eastern europe during WWII. be warned, it is violent and gruesome at parts, but none is gratuitous. we discover by the end that we are more desensitized to violence on a daily basis than we ever realized. an incredible author. never a dull moment. horrific picaresque. in some ways, a must read for anyone interested in literature.
