The Jewish War and The Victory

"[The Victory] is part of a series in which Grynberg, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the U.S. in 1968, fictionalizes the events of his life from WW II onward. This volume follows events from the last weeks of the war through the Communist takeover of Poland. The unnamed narrator, a nine-year-old boy, and his widowed mother have survived the war by passing as Aryans, and they must decide how to live in the aftermath of brutality . . . the book has moments of appalling power." —Publishers Weekly

"The Victory is a rather gentle novel, understating its points if anything, letting the reality behind the events shine through to the reader." —Polish Review