Benjamin's Crossing

"Parini's Benjamin's Crossing is at once painstakingly researched and dramatically recounted...It has something important to tell us". -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn Benjamin's Crossing, Jay Parini tracks Benjamin through his last, terrible months. The story opens with his desperate flight from Paris, on the heels of the Nazi invasion in 1940. It depicts his various, often tragicomic, attempts to flee France, culminating in his frantic escape over the Pyrenees into Spain.Benjamin's Crossing is a lyrical novel of ideas. It is also a love story dramatizing one of the most moving peripheral episodes of the Holocaust.Parini, Jay is the author of 'Benjamin's Crossing' with ISBN 9780805031805 and ISBN 0805031804.