From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a story about the Holocaust that burns itself into the reader s imagination with almost surreal powers (The New York Times). Read this great little book of Cynthia Ozick s: It contains dazzling staggering pages filled with sadness and truth. --Elie Wiesel Chicago Tribune A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it.