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Description

The tragic story of a Jewish boy in Germany during the 1930s, this award-winning novel is "superb, sensitive, honest, and compelling" (The New York Times).

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First Sentence

Someone had called him Polycarp, and he kept this name all the time he ruled over our front garden.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Hans Peter Richter (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Edite Kroll (Translator) - translated from the German by Edite Kroll
 

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