The Rat Palace

In this allegorical novel of the Holocaust, Polish author Bogdan Rutha presents a tale in which the protagonist, a young Pole, is drawn into the nightmare world that is the Jewish ghetto in the city of N. Drawn to the ghetto, first by his intellectual discussions with Dr. Glatter, a Jewish physician, then later by the beautiful Ada Capiez, the "angel of the ghetto," the narrator becomes aware of the increasingly bizarre and dehumanizing milieu of the "Jewish districts" in Poland.

As the narr...