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There are few figures in literature as riveting as the precocious nine-year-old Magda Denes who narrates this story. Her stubborn self-command and irrepressible awareness of the absurd make her in her mother's eyes "impossibly sarcastic, bigmouthed, insolent, and far too smart" for her own good. When her family goes into hiding from the fascist Arrow-Cross, she is torn from the "castle" of intimacies shared with her adored and adoring older brother and plunged into a world of incomprehensible deprivation, separation, and loss. Her rage, and her ability to feel devastating sorrow and still to insist on life, will reach every reader at the core. Recounting an odyssey through the wreckage and homelessness of postwar Europe, Castles Burning embodies a powerful personality, a stunning gift for prose and storytelling, a remarkable sense of humor, and true emotional wisdom and makes a magnificent contribution to the literature of childhood and war.

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Castles Burning is the story of Magda, a young Jewish girl in war-torn Budapest. The author, Magda Denes, wrote this memoir of her Holocaust experience in the strong, honest voice of her childhood self, leaving her memories unrefined by later acquired adult experience. Magda lived through unspeakable deprivation and horror, hidden from German soldiers and Hungarian Nazis, as she attempted to survive the insanity that engulfed her and her family. The Russian invasion and the withdrawal of the Germans did little to restore any sense of normalcy in Magda's life. After the war, Magda and her family still had to confront their losses and attempt to deal with the many ways they had been changed. For Magda, the loss of her childhood and the painful set of memories she carries burden her most, keeping her distant from her mother and father and preventing her from ever receiving the tenderness her weary soul desires. Denes's story takes her from Hungary to France, then Cuba and on to the United States, creating an incredible family story full of horrifying adventures, by turns both sad and comic. But the precious creation of this book is the unforgettable childhood of Magda, a gem forged under ungodly pressure.
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Magda Denes is a professor in the postdoctoral programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at Adelphi University and New York University, and a faculty member and supervisor in the department of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

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  • PublisherPocket Books
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0684846888
  • ISBN 13 9780684846880
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages384
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