Wartime Lies Author:Louis Begley Chosen by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year. — As the world slips into the throes of war, young Maciek is about to see his warm and protected childhood vanish forever. Closeted by his loving family, he knows of no other life. But Maciek is a Polish Jew living near Warsaw in 1939. The course of his future is about to chan... more »ge, and his past is soon to be stretched into unrecognizable shapes.
As Warsaw falls, Maciek escapes with his aunt Tania. Beautiful and brave, Tania becomes the one person on whom Maciek can always depend. On the run, in hiding, changing their names, forging documents to secure their temporary lives, Tania and Maciek endure the war together -- as the insistent drum of the Nazi march moves ever closer to them and to their secret wartime lies.« less