Castles Burning: A Child's Life In War

Magda Denes

ISBN 10: 0385409052 / ISBN 13: 9780385409056

Published by Doubleday, 1997

About this Item

First edition hardback, 1997, with unclipped jacket. In overall near fine used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread; no annotations or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Castles Burning: A Child's Life In War
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385409052
• ISBN 13: 9780385409056
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::General

About this title

Synopsis

In 1944, Magda Denes was ten years old and living in Budapest. Squeezed into a tiny two-room apartment with her mother, adored brother Ivan, grandparents, aunt and cousin Erwin, the family were learning to adapt to the brutal regime of the occupying German forces. As rumours filtered through about concentration camps and mass deportations, Hungarian Jews found their lives more and more desperate. Starving, terrified, indiscriminately murdered, tortured and abused, they were now barricaded in underground ghettos. They formed militant resistance groups that went out by night to fight the Germans. Ivan and Erwin, both resistance fighters, were shot. Magda's grandfather died of starvation. The depleted family escaped from Budapest and with great difficulty made their way to Spain, via France, and then by boat to America, and a new life.

About the Author

Magda Denes was born in Budapest, Hungary and fled with her family in 1946. At the time of her death in December, 1996, she was a post-graduate professor psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at Adelphi University and New York University and a Supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She was also a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. KEY QUOTES- 'A superb book.' Rabbi Julia Neuberger 'A triumph...a vivid chronicle of a terrible time, and a gripping adventure story.' New York Times Book Review 'As important as Schindler's List, as emotionally complex as Au Revoir Les Enfants... This is the book that I myself have hungered for.' Louise DeSalvo 'Deeply felt and ferociously funny, it has the power to rivet and amaze us.' Eva Hoffman