The Horn Book Magazine, November 1st, 2003
Uri Orlev Run, Boy, Run; trans. by Hillel Halkin 186 pp. Lorraine/Houghton 10/03 ISBN 0-618-16465-0 15.00 (Middle School, High School)
In this novel based on a Holocaust survivor's account, Srulik, a nine-year-old boy on the run in the Polish countryside, learns from his encounters with an assortment of strangers that he cannot reveal himself as Jew. Part of the strength of Orlev's writing rests with its spareness: like his protagonist, Orlev does not waste words; he resists embellishment. We learn what happens, but we must construct our feelings about those happenings for ourselves. "In da...
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