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A novel about a young Englishman searching for his child in France just after the end of the war.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #40286 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .71" h x 5.45" w x 7.58" l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

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The Guardian, Nicholas Lezard, October 2001
'Had it not got so nerve-wracking towards the end, I would have read it in one go...This is haunting stuff.'

The Jewish Chronicle, Jonathan Self, October 2001
'Little Boy Lost is a gem.'

Excerpted from Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. Copyright © 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Facing him was a thin little boy in a black sateen overall. Its sleeves were too short and from them dangled red swollen hands too big for the frail wrists. Hilary looked from these painful hands to the little boy's long thin grubby legs, to the crude coarse socks falling over shabby black boots that were surely several sizes too large. It's a foreign child, he thought numbly, and then let himself look at the small white face turned towards him, a lock of black hair falling from a travesty of a parting over enormous dark eyes that stared imploringly into his.
He knew that he should have moved towards the child, greeted him naturally and with friendliness. But he could only stand and stare with horror and replusion, saying wildly to himself, 'Why does he look at me like that? He doesn't know why I'm here. Why does he look at me like that?'