- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Autobiographical fiction, History
Fictional memoir of World War II experiences of a small boy abandoned in a remote village in Central Europe.
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Grave, bleak, overwhelming and earnest.
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- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Jerzy N. Kosinski
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- HighBridge Audio, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group September, Bantam
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- English, Russian, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780395242919
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First sentence
“"I lived in Marta's hut, expecting my parents to come for me any day, any hour."”
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