Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship - Softcover

"A novel of understated grace and enormous power". -- Library Journal

"Unsettling and uncompromising." --"The New York Times"
"One of those rare books that captivates you from the very first page and haunt[s] you long after you've finished." --"ELLE"
"A holocaust story of uncompromising psychological depth." --"The Baltimore Sun"
"A novel of . . . enormous power." --"Library Journal"
""Shadows of a Childhood" moves us not only with the story of a little Jewish girl exiled from one milieu to another, from one life to another, but also through the sober delicacy with which this tale is told." --Elie Wiesel
"Unsettling and uncompromising." The New York Times
"One of those rare books that captivates you from the very first page and haunt[s] you long after you ve finished." ELLE
"A holocaust story of uncompromising psychological depth." The Baltimore Sun
"A novel of . . . enormous power." Library Journal
"Shadows of a Childhood moves us not only with the story of a little Jewish girl exiled from one milieu to another, from one life to another, but also through the sober delicacy with which this tale is told." Elie Wiesel
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"Unsettling and uncompromising." --The New York Times

"One of those rare books that captivates you from the very first page and haunt[s] you long after you've finished." --ELLE

"A holocaust story of uncompromising psychological depth." --The Baltimore Sun

"A novel of . . . enormous power." --Library Journal

"Shadows of a Childhood moves us not only with the story of a little Jewish girl exiled from one milieu to another, from one life to another, but also through the sober delicacy with which this tale is told." --Elie Wiesel

In her first novel to appear in English, the late French writer offers a fictionalized account of her search for the truth behind the disappearance of her mother, a writer who was sent to Auschwitz when the author was five.