Named a New York Times Notable BookWinner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeWinner of the Anne Frank PrizeThese shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.