As the world slips into the throes of the Second World War, young Maciek is about to see his warm and protected childhood vanish forever - for he is a Jew living in south-east Poland. Maciek and his beautiful, acerbic and brave aunt Tania, always together, constantly on the run, use forged identity papers and names that are not their own, to stay just ahead of Germans who are bent on the extermination of Polish Jews. Gripping and intensely moving, Wartime Lies is a story of high courage and adventure that looks unblinkingly at the cost of survival. Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for a First Work of Fiction and the French Prix m'dicis étranger.
