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When Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar was published twenty-five years after World War II, it was hailed worldwide as the most remarkable novel of the Holocaust ever written in Germany. It is, said the Times Literary Supplement,"" a novel about the martyrdom of Europe's Jews that has never been surpassed. . . . It does for the victims of the Shoah what Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich does for those of the gulag."" In this follow-up work to Jacob the Liar, Becker tells the story of a man named Aron Blank, tracing his life from his release from a concentration camp in the summer of 1945 through the next twenty or so years. Living in a ghetto at the start of the war, Aron had lost his wife—who one day was arrested by the Nazis. In desperation, he turned over his two-year-old son, Mark, for safekeeping to a neighbor just before he was deported. Now, having survived the war, Aron sets out, with the help of an American relief organization, to find his son. He...Pages of The Boxer :