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 mankind́s historýand to do so with the sympathy, vision, and heart that are the hallmarks of his work. 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 vitaĺand outspokeńsurvivor. Old Max has become a world-reknowned painter, and hés about to be honored with a retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. Yet the truth is that hés been keeping a crucial secret from the art world́indeed from the world at large, and perhaps even from himself́all his life long. The Thief of Auschwitz reveals that secret, along with others that lie in the heart of a family that́s called upon to endurétogether and separatelýthe unendurable.
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