The Little Liar
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4.5 • 83 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
An instant New York Times Bestseller
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel of hope and forgiveness that moves from a coastal Greek city during WWII to America in the golden age of Hollywood, as the intertwined lives of three young survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the grace of redemption.
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. His schoolmate, Fannie, loves him because of it. Nico’s older brother Sebastian resents him for both these facts. When their young lives are torn apart during the war, it will take them decades to find each other again.
Nico’s innocence and goodness is used against his tightly knit community when a German officer barters Nico’s reputation for honesty into a promise to save his loved ones. When Nico realizes the consequences of the betrayal, he can never tell the truth again. He will spend the rest of this life changing names, changing locations and identities, desperate to find a way to forgiveness—for himself and from the people he loves most.
Albom’s extraordinary storytelling is at its powerful best in his first novel to confront the destruction that lying can wreak both on the world stage as well as on the individual lives that get caught up in it. As The Stranger in the Lifeboat spoke to belief, The Little Liar speaks to hope, in a breathless page-turner that will break your heart open and fill it with the power of the human spirit and the goodness that lies within us all.
Narrated by the voice of Truth itself, The Little Liar is a timeless story about the power of love to ultimately redeem us, no matter how deeply we blame ourselves for our mistakes.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Mitch Albom loads industrial-sized themes like guilt and truth into The Little Liar and ends up with an inspiring tale. Nazis have invaded Salonika, Greece, where they start sending Jewish people to death camps. Unscrupulous German soldier Udo deceives young Nico, an unfailingly honest boy, into telling other Jewish people the trains are taking them to new homes. This starts a cycle of lies, death, resentment, and shame that goes from WWII all the way to the 1980s and includes Nico’s brother, Sebastian, as well as Fannie, the girl beloved by both brothers. The storytelling alone is gripping—Albom captures intimate details as well as all the drama of the novel’s epic sweep. But he takes dazzling artistic liberties, too, like having the personification of truth tell the story, addressing the reader directly along the way. In Albom’s narration, you can feel what’s driving him—not just the darkness of the setting but the brightness of the spirituality and hope transcending it all. It’s historical fiction with a hint of the otherworldly and a lot of heart.
Customer Reviews
A must read!
I have read every Mitch Albom book. Without a doubt this is in my top 3 list. Per usual, his storytelling will have you wanting to read the book in entirety in one sitting. This book is no exception. Filled with twists, jaw- dropping, and teary eyed moments.
Excellent
Wonderful reader. He made the book more interesting than it was. Good read, just not to of my list.
Thumbs Up
I enjoy that Mitch Albom narrates his book as it gives a perspective he can only give. It’s a great story.