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Adam and Thomas Hardback - 2015

by Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey Green (Translator); Philippe Dumas (Illustrator)

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From the publisher

HONOR 2016 - Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book
WINNER 2016 - Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries
FINALIST 2016 - National Jewish Book Awards

Adam and Thomas is the story of two nine-year-old Jewish boys who survive World War II by banding together in the forest. They are alone, visited only furtively every few days by Mina, a mercurial girl who herself has found refuge from the war by living with a peasant family. She makes secret journeys and brings the boys parcels of food at her own risk.

Adam and Thomas must learn to survive and do. They forage and build a small tree house, although it's more like a bird's nest. Adam's family dog, Miro, manages to find his way to him, to the joy of both boys. Miro brings the warmth of home with him. Echoes of the war are felt in the forest. The boys meet fugitives fleeing for their lives and try to help them. They learn to disappear in moments of danger. And they barely survive winter's harshest weather, but when things seem to be at their worst, a miracle happens.

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  • Title Adam and Thomas
  • Author Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey Green (Translator); Philippe Dumas (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Triangle Square, New York
  • Publication date 2015-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781609806347 / 1609806344
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 2.03 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 630
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, Refugees
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015010371
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

First championed in the English language by Irving Howe and Philip Roth, AHARON APPELFELD was born in a village near Czernowitz, Bukovina in 1932. During World War II, he was deported to a concentration camp in Transnistria, but escaped. He was eight years old. For the next three years, he wandered the forests. In 1944, he was picked up by the Red Army, served in field kitchens in Ukraine, then made his way to Italy. He reached Palestine in 1946. He has written many novels which depict the Holocaust, including Badenheim 1939 (1978) and The Conversion (1998). Today, Appelfield is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University at Beersheva, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won numerous prizes, including the Israel Prize; the MLA Commonwealth Award in Literature; the Prix Mdicis tranger in France; the Premio Grinzane Cavour and Premio Boccaccio Internazionale; the Bertha von Suttner Award for Culture and Peace; and the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. In 2013, he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.

JEFFREY M. GREEN began to translate for Aharon Appelfeld in the 1980s and has translated a dozen or so of his novels. Green is the author of Thinking Through Translation (University of Georgia Press), as well as short stories, poems, novels, book reviews, and essays.

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