In a story about a post-holocaust abused girl's secrets and fantasies, her dreams and lies, her enemies and friends, and the walls we all build to protect ourselves when life is consumed with pain, fortune finally comes Halinka's way.
Mirjam Pressler won the German Youth Literature Prize in 1994 for the body of her work. A translator and biographer of Anne Frank, she lives in Germany and Israel.
Elizabeth D. Crawford's translations have won many prizes, including the 1998 Batchelder Award for
The Robber and Me, by Josef Holub (Holt).
Mirjam Pressler won the German Youth Literature Prize in 1994 for the body of her work. A translator and biographer of Anne Frank, she lives in Germany and Israel.
Elizabeth D. Crawford's translations have won many prizes, including the 1998 Batchelder Award for The Robber and Me, by Josef Holub (Holt).