The Lamb's War by Jan de Hartog (1979)

The Lamb's War
by Jan de Hartog
Publisher: Harper & Row / Atheneum
Copyright:  1979
Book Club Edition

Jan de Hartog's novel opens in Nazi-occupied Europe and moves on to the American Southwest.  It tells a most dramatic and soul-stirring story and dares to ask the ultimate questions:  why are we here and why do we act as we do.

At the heart of this immensely rich novel is the relationship of a Dutch girl, Laura Martens, and an American boy, Boniface Baker, who meet in a just-liberated Nazi concentration camp.  They are both Quakers, but all else separates them:  Laura has survived three years of the camp and bears no relation to the innocent girl whose father was caught trying to save Jewish babies.  Bonny Baker, a devoted and idealistic ambulance driver, very American, very innocent, determines to save Laura, and he brings her back to the United States where they are soon launched upon a passionate and heartrending adventure.  The story is played out against the background of today's Quaker and Indian life, both offering a generous variety of humanity and both striving to preserve or find moral and ethical values in a world that often seems mad -- a world that mocks the efforts of Quakers, and others, to achieve lives of non-violence, compassion and love.

In the story of these two people and the many lives they touch, Jan de Hartog has created an epic of the twentieth century, torn between its several hells on earth and its visions of heaven.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is lightly discolored from age and shows shelf wear and a bit of tearing.  Pages may be tanning from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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