'The camp at Auschwitz took one year of my life and of my own free will I gave it another four.'<br> So begins the much-anticipated new novel from Jon Clinch award-winning author of Finn and Kings of the Earth.<br><br>In The Thief of Auschwitz Clinch steps for the first time beyond the deeply American roots of his earlier books to explore one of the darkest moments in mankind' s history-- and to do so with the sympathy vision and heart that are the hallmarks of his work<br>. Told in two intertwining narratives The Thief of Auschwitz takes readers on a dual journey: one into the death camp at Auschwitz with Jacob Eidel Max and Lydia Rosen; the other into the heart of Max himself now an aged but extremely vital-- and outspoken-- survivor. Max is a renowned painter and he' s about to be honored with a retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. The truth though is that he' s been keeping a crucial secret from the art world-- indeed from the world at large and perhaps even from himself-- all his life long.<br> The Thief of Auschwitz reveals that secret along with others that lie in the heart of a family that' s called upon to endure-- together and separately-- the unendurable.