THE GATES OF THE FOREST

About this book

Gregor?a teenaged boy the lone survivor of his family?is 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 Gregors wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.