Wartime Lies
By Louis Begley
(Ballantine Books, Paperback, 9780449001172, 240pp.)
Publication Date: October 15, 1997
Other Editions of This Title: Audio Cassette (January 2009), Compact Disc (January 2009), MP3 CD (January 2009), Mass Market Paperback (May 1992)
Categories: Literary
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"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Together they endure the war, running, hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives—as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.
From the Paperback edition.











