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The author recounts his experiences as a child in a German concentration camp and the deaths of his parents
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'Told with the deadpan disbelief of a child, it is shocking as well as desperately beautiful in its simplicity' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
'What to say about it other than to admit that it approaches perfection?... a rare achievement and a delight' John Self
'Full of scenes of great poignancy, it is made all the more shocking by the starkness of the style.... In places, it is almost unbearable' TLS
'A book which will shock every reader with a heart" Isaac Bashevis Singer, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
'This is not the book of the year, but the book of this damned century. [It is] real art ... this novel is going to reach everyone and go on reaching people for generations to come' Alan Sillitoe
'A compelling, brilliant evocation of life, terror and white lies as experienced by a small boy' Philippe Sands
'It will shock, move you to tears... Admirably understated... haunting' Daily Mail
'A child sees the barbarities of such an event [the Holocaust] not in terms of race or politics, but the way a Martian would see them, as amazing and stupefying instances of the cruelty of man. Jona Oberski conveys this amazement in an unembroidered and memorial way' Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark
'A Childhood is an astonishing book - memorable, piercing. It reaches the very soul' Chaim Potok'
'A dark fairy tale... of the fears and anguish of a child, based on experiences that could not be grasped by reason, irrational yet truly real' Heinrich Böll
'This book cleverly makes a singular and powerful statement... There is no mawkish sentimentality here... A Childhood punches well above its weight, and everyone should read it' --Historical Novel Society
'A compelling, brilliant evocation of life, terror and white lies as experienced by a small boy' --Philippe Sands
About the Author:
'What to say about it other than to admit that it approaches perfection?... a rare achievement and a delight' John Self
'Full of scenes of great poignancy, it is made all the more shocking by the starkness of the style.... In places, it is almost unbearable' TLS
'A book which will shock every reader with a heart" Isaac Bashevis Singer, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
'This is not the book of the year, but the book of this damned century. [It is] real art ... this novel is going to reach everyone and go on reaching people for generations to come' Alan Sillitoe
'A compelling, brilliant evocation of life, terror and white lies as experienced by a small boy' Philippe Sands
'It will shock, move you to tears... Admirably understated... haunting' Daily Mail
'A child sees the barbarities of such an event [the Holocaust] not in terms of race or politics, but the way a Martian would see them, as amazing and stupefying instances of the cruelty of man. Jona Oberski conveys this amazement in an unembroidered and memorial way' Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark
'A Childhood is an astonishing book - memorable, piercing. It reaches the very soul' Chaim Potok'
'A dark fairy tale... of the fears and anguish of a child, based on experiences that could not be grasped by reason, irrational yet truly real' Heinrich Böll
'This book cleverly makes a singular and powerful statement... There is no mawkish sentimentality here... A Childhood punches well above its weight, and everyone should read it' --Historical Novel Society
'A compelling, brilliant evocation of life, terror and white lies as experienced by a small boy' --Philippe Sands
Jona Oberski was born in 1938 in Amsterdam. He studied and worked there as a nuclear and particle research physicist, and still lives there with his wife Froukje Slijper. He is the father of three sons, two from an earlier marriage.
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- PublisherPenguin Random House Australia
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0452255287
- ISBN 13 9780452255289
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages119
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