![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the children’s father and stepmother connect in the forest with a local resistance unit that gradually closes in on the village.Īfter getting through early dialogue that seemed implausible for hungry, cold and exhausted refugees to utter, the need to find out if the family is reunited is difficult to resist. The action centers on a Gypsy woman’s attempts to hide the two children’s Jewish identity from the rest of the small town, which is being overseen by a grizzled German soldier who longs for a real military assignment on the Eastern front. It’s a compelling read set in a Polish hamlet where all the Jews have already been taken and murdered at nearby Auschwitz. There’s a witch, an oven, breadcrumbs and a real, real bad guy.īut this tale, set during the Holocaust, isn’t bedtime reading for children. ![]() Thus begins Louise Murphy’s adaptation of the classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel, to World War II. Pursued by vicious German motorcyclists and dogs, two Jewish children are hidden by their father and stepmother in hopes that they might reunite after they elude the Germans. It begins with a chase that lasts the entire length of the novel. ![]()
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