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The Man in the Box Book

"During the war, we kept our Jew in a box." So begins The Man in the Box, Thomas Moran's debut novel. The Jew is Dr. Robert Weiss, an Austrian doctor on the run from the Nazis; the box is a small space built into the back of a hayloft owned by Herr Lukasser, an Austrian farmer. In the course of his two-year confinement, Dr. Weiss's only contact with the outside world is through Lukasser's son, Niki, whose life the doctor saved many years before, and Niki's blind girlfriend, Sigi. To these two teenagers he imparts the story of his life, fantastical tales conveyed in whispers through the wooden wall of his cell. Writing in spare, clean prose, Mr. Moran captures perfectly the tumultuous interior life of children on the verge of adulthood: the petty cruelties they visit on one another, their sexual stirrings and inchoate longings of adolescence. In the case of Niki, the added burden of the secret he must keep makes this passage particularly perilous--to himself, his family, and the Man in the Box.Read More

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  • Product Description

    To thirteen-year-old Niki Lukasser, World War II seemed very far away. Then a man appeared at the Lukassers' door. A man who had come to their small Austrian town years before. A doctor who had saved Niki's life. A Jew - now asking to be hidden . . . The Man in the Box is Thomas Moran's elegant first novel, a vivid and evocative coming-of-age tale in a time when even a child's innocence is not beyond the nightmare of war.

  • 1573226491
  • 9781573226493
  • Thomas Moran
  • 1 January 1998
  • Riverhead Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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