The legacy of the Holocaust is passed on to a young girl through her father's stories in this celebrated novel.
"When I was in the camp," her father's stories always begin. Although she lives in the everyday world of school and friends, a daughter is compelled by love to enter her father's harrowing world of hunger, death, and survival in the concentration camp. In a moving Afterword, the author sets the historical context for the novel and speaks directly about her own father, upon whom the novel is based.
Author Biography: Carl Friedman was born in the Netherlands in 1952 and now lives in Amsterdam.