Jonas Fink Vol. 1La Infancia |
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| Author:
| Giardino, Vittorio |
| Series title: | Single Volume Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59497-089-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Public Square Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Innocence is in short supply in communist Czechoslavakia, and childhood painfully brief. In this story, a young Jewish boy must become a man all too soon when, without warning or cause, his father is imprisoned for counterrevolutionary activities. Powerful, moving. . .a work of brilliant clarity and unsettling insight --Publisher's Weekly Visually compelling and historically resonant. . .a masterwork of its kind. --Kirkus Reviews
Innocence is in short supply in communist Czechoslavakia, and childhood painfully brief. In this story, a young Jewish boy must become a man all too soon when, without warning or cause, his father is imprisoned for counterrevolutionary activities. Powerful, moving. . .a work of brilliant clarity and unsettling insight --Publisher's Weekly Visually compelling and historically resonant. . .a masterwork of its kind. --Kirkus Reviews