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Starred Review on March 1, 2024 | Audio In Depth
A screenwriter and novelist blacklisted for his involvement with the Communist Party and jailed for refusing to testify about it, Maltz (The Cross and the Arrow) based his final novel on his 1960 interviews with a Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, Dounia Wasserstrom. It follows two women (Lini and Claire) and four men (Otto, Jurek, Andrej, and Norbert) who in 1945 escape from a Nazi death march and take refuge in an abandoned Polish factory. Though they are e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
