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.
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- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - Author
- Adriana Hunter - Translator
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780857897237
- File size: 789 KB
- Release date: April 12, 2012
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780857897237
- File size: 789 KB
- Release date: April 12, 2012