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The Clockmaker

Eli Wren · Historical fiction

Węgrów, Poland. In a cluttered workshop of ticking clocks, Reb Anshel Tsukerman, an elderly clockmaker with a fondness for pigeons, riddles and impossible chemistry, hears in the rhythm of the times a darkness others refuse to see. While his neighbours dismiss his warnings, he labours in secret over a single elixir.

Years later, in the shadow of Treblinka, his work awakens. Those condemned to vanish are transformed into something extraordinary, and led by his great-nephew Dovid, a young tailor who refuses to be called a saviour, they rise against their captors.

The Clockmaker is a novel of memory, faith and defiance, written with deep respect for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and for the real courage of the Treblinka uprising of August 1943.