This autobiographical first novel is a spare, unsentimental memoir of a young Jewish girl growng up at the end of World War II. The unnamed narrator is five years old when she, her mother and aunt are liberated by Soviet soldiers from two and a half years of hiding from the Nazis. Charney has produced an illuminating document of an unusual time and place. -- Library Journal
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This autobiographical first novel is a spare, unsentimental memoir of a young Jewish girl growng up at the end of World War II. The unnamed narrator is five years old when she, her mother and aunt are liberated by Soviet soldiers from two and a half years of hiding from the Nazis. Charney has produced an illuminating document of an unusual time and place. -- Library Journal
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