Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War (Signed Copy)

Magda Denes

ISBN 10: 0393039668 / ISBN 13: 9780393039665

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1997

About this Item

US Hardback First Edition, First Printing 1997. Condition : A near fine book with some light creasing to the spine tips. The dust jacket is near fine, light rubs and creases to the spine tips. Signed by the author to the title page. A good looking copy. All books are securely packaged for safe shipping. A refund is available if the book is not as described.* Further images available on request**.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393039668
• ISBN 13: 9780393039665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.