How huge the night : a novel / [print]
Heather Munn and Lydia Munn.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : Kregel Publications, (c)2011.
- 304 pages ; 22 cm
In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they shelter a Jewish boy in their home. For fifteen-year-old Julien Losier, life will never be the same. His family has relocated to southern France to outrun Hitler's menace. But Julien doesn't want to run. He doesn't want to huddle around the radio at night, waiting to hear news through buzzing static. Julien doesn't want to wait. Angry, frustrated, and itching to do something, Julien finds a battle everywhere he turns. Soon after his family opens their house to a Jewish boy needing refuge, Julien meets Nina, a young Austrian who has fled her home by her father's dying command. Nina's situation is grave and Julien suddenly realizes the enormity of having someone's life or death depend on ... him. Thrown together by a conflict that's too big for them to understand, each one struggles to know what to do, even if it is not enough. Is there a greater purpose in the shadows of this terrible war? Or will their choices put them in greater danger?
13 years of age and up.
For Word Magazines, Book of the Year Award.
9780825433108
2011000458
Columbia International University--Alumni and alumnae.