Dimensions
129 x 198 x 22mm
An Autobiographical Novel.
A young Polish girl living in Warsaw is suddenly engulfed by the Second World War. Outside the concentration camps and mostly outside the ghetto, the adolescent heroine and her family experience the war as civilians with a terrible secret - they are Jews.
Living in a country house, hiding four of their close relatives in the cellar, they survive on false papers and "good looks". One day the Warsaw ghetto burns; the next moment, they have to cope with waves of German soldiers bursting through their house; another day, they wake to find the front line in their front garden.
The author recreates this extraordinary ordinary world through the unforgettable eyes of her adolescent self. An autobiographical novel, originally published in 1980 to rave reviews, it is now re-issued with an introduction by Professor Richard Freadman so that a new generation of readers has access to "a classic . . . one of the finest examples of Australian Holocaust literature".
