"Set in Greece when the Nazis invade, this is a sweeping, spiritual story of survival, deception and redemption."
Early on in The Little Liar, Mitch Albom’s omniscient narrator’s voice (actually, the voice of Truth) lays the foundations for — and directs readers’ perspective on — a story about how lies grow, and how love redeems us. It’s the story of Nico. A boy who hadn’t told a lie until he was eleven years old. A boy whose story “concerns deception, great deception, but also great truth, and heartbreak and war and family and revenge and love, the kind of love that is tested over and over. Before the story ends, there is even a moment of magic, set against an endless tapestry of human frailty.”
Into this starkly delivered set-up and framework, we read how young Nico was offered a chance to save his own family when the Nazis invaded his Greek hometown. He obliges, and tells his fellow Jewish neighbours to jump aboard east-bound trains, where jobs supposedly await. He assures them they’ll be safe, only to realise, far too late, that his loved ones will never, ever return. As the decades pass, Nico realises the awful truth of what his actions and lies were responsible for.
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A moving new novel from the beloved author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven
When the Nazis invade Salonika, Greece, eleven-year-old Nico Crispi is offered a chance to save his family. He is instructed to convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards the east, where they are promised jobs and safety. He dutifully goes to the station platform every day and reassures the passengers that the journey is safe. Only after it is too late does Nico discover that the people he loved would never return.
In The Little Liar, Nico's story is interweaved with other individuals impacted by the occupation: his brother Sebastian, their schoolmate Fanni and the Nazi officer who radically changed their lives. As the decades pass, the consequences of what they endured come to light.
Exploring honesty, survival, revenge and devotion, The Little Liar is a timeless story about the harm we inflict with our deceits, and the power of love to redeem us.
The Little Liar features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Religious and spiritual fiction, Fiction, General Fiction
The Little Liar is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Little Liar was written by Mitch Albom and published by Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown
The Little Liar has 333 pages
£9.89
