The Painted Bird

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Escaping the Holocaust, a dark-haired, olive skinned boy, perhaps a Jew or a Gypsy, wanders alone from one Slav village to another, through sunless forests and endless marshes, sometimes sheltered and taught. Fusing adolescence with the most brutal adult expereince, Kosinski portrays a world of horrifying excesses--in a story about the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love.