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Niki Lukasser can no longer deny the impact on her sheltered teenage world of World War II when the Jewish doctor who had saved her life years before comes seeking refuge with her family in Austria. Reprint.
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"During the war, we kept our Jew in a box." So begins The Man in the Box, Thomas Moran's debut novel. The Jew is Dr. Robert Weiss, an Austrian doctor on the run from the Nazis; the box is a small space built into the back of a hayloft owned by Herr Lukasser, an Austrian farmer. In the course of his two-year confinement, Dr. Weiss's only contact with the outside world is through Lukasser's son, Niki, whose life the doctor saved many years before, and Niki's blind girlfriend, Sigi. To these two teenagers he imparts the story of his life, fantastical tales conveyed in whispers through the wooden wall of his cell. Writing in spare, clean prose, Mr. Moran captures perfectly the tumultuous interior life of children on the verge of adulthood: the petty cruelties they visit on one another, their sexual stirrings and inchoate longings of adolescence. In the case of Niki, the added burden of the secret he must keep makes this passage particularly perilous--to himself, his family, and the Man in the Box.
About the Author
Thomas Moran is the author of The Man in the Box, winner of the Book-of-the-Month ClubŪ Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, The World I Made for Her, and Water, Carry Me. His novels have been translated into seven languages.
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- PublisherRiverhead Trade
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1573226491
- ISBN 13 9781573226493
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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