I BEGGED, AND OFTEN MY BROTHER OBLIGED.
An edition of Castles Burning
(1997)
Castles burning
a child's life in war
1st ed.
by Magda Denes
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There are few figures in literature as riveting as the precocious nine-year-old Magda Denes who narrates this story. Her stubborn self-command and irrepressible awareness of the absurd make her in her mother's eyes "impossibly sarcastic, bigmouthed, insolent, and far too smart" for her own good.
When her family goes into hiding from the fascist Arrow-Cross, she is torn from the "castle" of intimacies shared with her adored and adoring older brother and plunged into a world of incomprehensible deprivation, separation, and loss. Her rage, and her ability to feel devastating sorrow and still to insist on life, will reach every reader at the core.
- Recounting an odyssey through the wreckage and homelessness of postwar Europe, Castles Burning embodies a powerful personality, a stunning gift for prose and storytelling, a remarkable sense of humor, and true emotional wisdom and makes a magnificent contribution to the literature of childhood and war.
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Biography, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jews, Personal narratives, Childhood and youth, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Women psychoanalysts, Psychoanalysts, Psychoanalysts, biography, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Hungary, Budapest, Budapest (Hungary)| Edition | Availability |
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Castles Burning: A Childs Life in War
March 19, 1998, Simon & Schuster
Paperback
in English
- 1st Touchstone Ed edition
0684846888 9780684846880
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Castles burning: a child's life in war
1997, W.W. Norton & Co., W. W. Norton & Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0393039668 9780393039665
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