The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell

The Breaking of Eggs

Jim Powell

Feliks Zhukovski is only nine when his mother puts him on a train out of Poland to escape the advancing Nazis. Only when he is 61 does he attempt to find his mother and half brother. The disintegration of the USSR, a trip to the USA and the discovery of a letter cause Feliks to reassess his entire life and beliefs. A touching story of war, love and loss which mirrors the lives of millions of Eastern Europeans.

Extract
This is what I discovered the next day. Szmul did go on the outing. He took Lilia and Mordechaj, all of them dressed in their best clothes, and put them on the cart, and they rode out into the country, to that same place by the lake. And they sat in the field and ate their picnic. Then he killed them.
Parallels
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Archangel by Robert Harris
  • Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith