We will meet again on Tuesday, January 21, at 7:30 via Zoom, todiscuss the fiction book, The Little Liar by Mitch Albom. The book is 333pages and was published in November, 2023. It is available in book, largeprint, ebook, and audiobook formats. It is at the Oakland and Berkeleylibraries, as well as available through Link+: https://csul.iii.com/search/?searchtype=X&searcharg=the+little+liar&sortdropdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=Xthe+little+liar%26SORT%3DDZ
An Instant NewYork Times Bestseller Beloved bestselling author MitchAlbom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story oftruth and lies set during the Holocaust.
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When theNazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered bya German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has todo is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading “north,”where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, theinnocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day. Butwhen the final train is loaded, Nico sees his family being herded into aboxcar. Only then does he discover that he has helped send them—and everyone heknows and loves—to their doom at Auschwitz. Nico escapes—but he never tells thetruth again.
In TheLittle Liar, Mitch Albom examines the human repercussions ofdeception by interweaving the stories of Nico, who yearns for forgiveness; hisolder brother, Sebastian, who vows revenge against him; Fannie, the girl whomust choose between them; and Udo Graf, the Nazi officer who forever changedtheir lives with his lies. Through the war years, the concentration camps,and the decades that follow, Albom reveals the consequences of each person’shonesty and dishonesty, bringing them back to where it all started in astaggering climax worthy of the best of Albom’s internationally embracedstories.
