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...named Zosia and a beautiful aunt, Tania. But solidity melts away as the war and the Jew hunting begin. Maciek's father is evacuated by Russian troops. Tania becomes the mistress of a German officer. She and Maciek resettle as Roman Catholics in a nearby town, then flee to Warsaw when their protector kills himself to avoid being arrested for fraternizing with Jews...
Hiding becomes a tangle of lies -- their own and those of the Poles who, as long as the two have money, pretend to believe them. As life in Warsaw disintegrates, Maciek and his aunt live for months with peasants, then are on the run again. Always, food must be scavenged, shelter of some kind found. Eventually the war ends. Maciek has grown taller, noticed girls, had a kind of boyhood. But he is blighted. "He became an embarrassment and slowly died," writes the author. A man who bears one of the names Maciek used has replaced...
...former FBI director and federal judge, Webster improved cooperation between the agency and the bureau on counter-intelligence matters. He increased to an all-time high the number of CIA officers involved in recruiting agents abroad. He also began reorienting intelligence priorities for a world in which the Warsaw Pact had collapsed and economic and Third World issues were becoming increasingly important...
...lives up to the book's title--indeed, his amorality and ultimate powerlessness make his character supremely unsympathetic. However, Singer enables the reader to appreciate Max's society even as we grow to dislike him. The presentation of decaying Jewish Warsaw is thoroughly moving, perhaps more so because the culture was completely destroyed during World...
...quaint world of Scum--complete with its filthy streets and tortured inhabitants--is gone. But Singer, by capturing the mood of 1906 working-class Warsaw life and adding a dimension to the narrative, elevates this book from a mere sex-riddled tale to a significant social commentary...