WIESEL, Elie - The Gates of the Forest - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Did belong to a library before but book and wrapper still very good - looks like it was never taken out.    >>>     Gregora teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his familyis hiding from the Germans in the forest.   He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life.   He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy.   He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance.   But where, he asks, is God hiding?   And where can one find redemption in a world that God has abandoned?   In a story punctuated by friendship and fear, sacrifice and betrayal,  Gregor's wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.     (Goodreads)                * Second World War * World War II * Survival *