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  <title>The Dog in the Wood</title>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What moved me much about this spare book, and what was poignantly rendered, was the gradual and realistic awakening of the main character, ten-year-old Fritz. As Germany falls in April 1945, he moves from unconditional lover of his German family, his friend Paul and his country, and begins to see each one as the complex and ambiguous--and sometimes evil, cowardly or false--things they are. As the child of a difficult parent and the lover of a country often wrong, I thought how much more difficult, if not impossible, navigating this territory must have been for a boy in Nazi Germany. Schroder adeptly renders the nuances of young Fritz's changing feelings and allegiances as he moves towards the heroic and the true.]]></body>
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