Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator , trans. by Hillel Halkin. Houghton/Lorraine $15 (186p) ISBN 978-0-618-16465-3
Orlev (The Island on Bird Street
), an award-winning writer and Holocaust survivor who now lives in Israel, devotes this memorable novel to the extraordinary true story of an orphaned Jewish boy's experiences in Poland during the war. As in most
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Houghton Mifflin $16 (108p) ISBN 978-0-547-25752-5
Orlev (Run, Boy, Run
) blurs the edges of dream and reality in this story about Michael, a friendless child of self-absorbed parents, who “[doesn't] like sports or computer games,” preferring the company of his Plasticine figures...
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-69957-7
The Israeli author of Lydia, Queen of Palestine and The Island on Bird Street reprises the theme of Jewish experience during WWII, opening this novel two years after the war has ended. Yulek, the sole survivor of his family, has no further links to...
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Puffin Books $6.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-037088-1
Orlev's ``judicious invocation of historical events and his energetic emphasis on the characters' personal dramas'' bring to life two very different protagonists in these exceptional novels set during WWII; the impact, said PW, is ``unimpeachable.''
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-53808-1
A true story of WW II Warsaw, this novel relates events so dramatic as to be cataclysmic. But the voice of its 14-year-old narrator, Marek, would be gripping given any plot, so candid that it tolerates admissions of less-than-exemplary behavior as...
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Puffin Books $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-037089-8
Orlev's ``judicious invocation of historical events and his energetic emphasis on the characters' personal dramas'' bring to life two very different protagonists in these exceptional novels set during WWII; the impact, said PW, is ``unimpeachable.''
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Puffin Books $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-038571-7
A Polish boy whose family perished in WWII is searched for by a long-lost aunt, who traces his circuitous route from a refugee camp to Israel. ""The issues of a Jewish homeland are presented sympathetically and dramatically,"" said PW. Ages 10-14. (N
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Uri Orlev, Author, Hillel Halkin, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $13.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-395-65660-0
Lydia Hoffman, the vigorous narrator of Orlev's ( The Man from the Other Side ) forceful and uncannily moving novel, describes herself as a ``terror.'' Sure enough, she bulldozes her way past a series of well-meaning teachers and governesses and...
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