A critically acclaimed novel told in the voice of an 8-year-old boy in the Warsaw Ghetto is the winner of the 2016 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature.
The award for “The Book of Aron: A Novel” by Jim Shepard was announced Jan. 10 at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Boston.
Honorable mentions were awarded to “The House of Twenty Thousand Books” by Sacramento journalist Sasha Abramsky, an homage to the author’s late grandparents whose North London home was filled with books; “After Abel and Other Stories” by Michal Lemberger; “The Complete Works of Primo Levi” by Primo Levi and edited by Ann Goldstein; and “Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel” by Dan Ephron. — jta