The Stars Can Wait (16 page)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Basu, Jay.

The stars can wait : a novel / Jay Basu.

   p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-42115-X

1. Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic)—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic)—Fiction. 3. Teenage boys—Fiction. 4. Brothers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3602.A85 S74 2002

813'.6—dc21

2001024843

First published by Henry Holt and Company

First Picador Edition: February 2003

eISBN 9781466856851

First eBook edition: October 2013