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Vos, Ida

The Key Is Lost

272 pp. | HarperCollins | May, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-688-16283-5 $$15.95
(4) 4-6 Translated by Terese Edelstein. During the Nazi occupation of Holland, two young sisters are hidden in a series of private homes, ultimately living with a childless man who makes puppets and performs as a clown. Though occasionally sentimental in tone, the present-tense prose provides immediacy to the story. Unfortunately, the two protagonists have interchangeable personalities and never come alive as individual characters.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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