Author: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Contemporary, War/Military
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ISBNs: 9781848874183 9782253123576 1848874189 2253123579 |
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It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is to conceal his Jewish heritage. Soon Joseph also discovers that Father Pons has a secret of his own: he is risking his life not only for the boys in his care, but for the Jewish faith itself. Sensitive, funny and deeply humane, Noah's Child is a simple fable that reveals the complexities of faith, bravery and the human condition.
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