""The camp at Auschwitz took one year of my life, and of my own free will I gave it another four."" So begins the much-anticipated new novel from Jon Clinch, award-winning author of "Finn" and "Kings of the Earth." In "The Thief of Auschwitz, " Clinch steps for the first time beyond the deeply American roots of his earlier books to explore one of the darkest moments in mankind's history-and to do so with the sympathy, vision, and heart that are the hallmarks of his work. Told in two intertwining narratives, "The Thief of Auschwitz" takes readers on a dual journey: one into the death camp at Auschwitz with Jacob, Eidel, Max, and Lydia Rosen; the other into the heart of Max himself, now an aged but extremely vital-and outspoken-survivor. Old Max has become a world-reknowned painter, and he's about to be honored with a retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. Yet the truth is that he's been keeping a crucial secret from the art world-indeed from the world at large, and perhaps even from himself-all his life long. "The Thief of Auschwitz" reveals that secret, along with others that lie in the heart of a family that's called upon to endure-together and separately-the unendurable.