The Little Liar

Resumen del libro

Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to new homes where they are promised jobs and safety.

Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. But when the final train is at the station, Nico sees his family being loaded into a large boxcar crowded with other neighbors. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that he helped send the people he lovedand all the othersto their doom at Auschwitz.

Nico never tells the truth again.

In The Little Liar, his first novel set during the Holocaust, Mitch Albom interweaves the stories of Nico, his brother Sebastian, and their schoolmate Fanni, who miraculously survive the death camps and spend years searching for Nico, who has become a pathological liar, and the Nazi officer who radically changed their lives.

As the decades pass, Albom reveals the consequences of what they said, did, and endured.

A moving parable that explores honesty, survival, revenge and devotion, The Little Liar is Mitch Albom at his very best. Narrated by the voice of Truth itself, it is a timeless story about the harm we inflict with our deceits, and the power of love to ultimately redeem us.

Biografía del autor

Con más de cuarenta millones de ejemplares vendidos en el mundo y traducido a cuarenta y dos idiomas, Mitch Albom es sin duda uno de los autores contemporáneos más influyentes. Nacido en Nueva Jersey en 1958, Albom empezó su vida profesional como músico antes de interesarse por el periodismo. Comenzó a trabajar en Nueva York, y se convirtó rápidamente en uno de los periodistas en uno de los periodistas deportivos más populares del país. En 1995, se reencontró con Morrie Schwartz, un antiguo profesor suyo aquejado de una grave enfermedad. De sus conversaciones con Morrie, nació Martes con mi viejo profesor, un libro inolvidable que catapultó a Mitch Albom al estrellato literario. Sus obras siguientes, Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el cielo y Un día más han confirmado su original talento y su facilidad para acceder al corazón de lectores del mundo entero. Albom es miembro de numerosas organizaciones benéficas y ha fundado tres instituciones en la zona de Detroit. Vive con su esposa Janine en Michigan.