Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Autor Aranka Siegalen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2003 – vârsta de la 10 până la 14 ani
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Newbery Medal (1982)
The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.
"This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780374480790
ISBN-10: 0374480796
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 132 x 195 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Square Fish
Locul publicării:New York, NY
ISBN-10: 0374480796
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 132 x 195 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Square Fish
Locul publicării:New York, NY
Recenzii
" At the outbreak of World War II, 9-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother in the Ukrainian countryside and is unable to return to her family in the Hungarian town of Beregsza sz. Aranka Siegal, the Piri of the narrative, finally comes home the following year but finds her life forever changed." - Starred, "School Library Journal"
" This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
" This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
Descriere
"Upon the Head of the Goat" is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.
Notă biografică
Aranka Siegal's Holocaust novels are based on her own experiences as a child. She lives in Miami, Florida.
Premii
- Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1982