Overview
- Summary
- "By the time I was five years old, I had spent half my life hidden away in a barn loft." So begins a Jewish girl's account of her childhood amid the ruins of World War II. The time is 1944, the setting a Polish town which has just been liberated from the Germans by the Red Army. While adults mourn what is lost forever, the narrator explores a world forbidden to her for so long, discovering the pleasures of the senses and the company of other children. An autobiographical novel by a writer from Montreal.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Sag Harbor, NY : Permanent Press, 1996
- Locale
- Poland
- Edition
- First edition
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 1877946664
9781877946660 - Physical Description
- 170 pages ; 23 cm
Keywords & Subjects
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