Perseus Academic: Shadows of a Childhood by Elisabeth Gille

One of the most beautiful books ever written on the impossibility of forgetting and the inescapable pain of those who survive … a classic.
—VOGUE Unsettling and uncompromising.
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

One of those rare books that captivates you from the very first page and haunt[s] you long after you've finished.
—ELLE

A holocaust story of uncompromising psychological depth.
—BALTIMORE SUN

A novel of … enormous power.
—LIBRARY JOURNAL

Shadows of a Childhood moves us not only with the story of a little Jewish girl exiled from one milieu to another, from one life to another, but also through the sober delicacy with which this tale is told.
—ELIE WIESEL