Post by leslie on Aug 22, 2006 4:56:32 GMT -7
Has anyone read this book 'A Square of Sky' by Janina David, originally published as two books 'A Square of Sky' and 'A Touch of Earth'. I haven't seen it mentioned on the forum, but I may have missed it. The story starts before WWII with a young girl living with her family in the west of Poland. With the invasion they struggle to Warszawa and struggle to live - the privations are terrible, but more are to come. They wish to return to their village and do so, in the act losing their house, furniture, jewelry, books etc to the Nazis. Back in the village privation is heaped on privation until they are forced to return to live in the Ghetto in Warszawa. All the time you are reading you are wondering how it could get any worse - but it does. Life is Hell on Earth for them.
This is as far as I have got. It is a massive book, 421 pages, but once you pick it up it is difficult to stop reading and put it down, even if you know you must.
Apparently, the little girl is smuggled out of the Ghetto to be with some old friends and eventually, with a false identity enters a Catholic convent (The subtitle of the book is 'A Wartime Childhood: from Ghetto to Convent).
I have read several books of a similar genre including Anna Frank, but none of them are as readable, frightening, or bringing the past of Poland to life as this one.
Leslie
This is as far as I have got. It is a massive book, 421 pages, but once you pick it up it is difficult to stop reading and put it down, even if you know you must.
Apparently, the little girl is smuggled out of the Ghetto to be with some old friends and eventually, with a false identity enters a Catholic convent (The subtitle of the book is 'A Wartime Childhood: from Ghetto to Convent).
I have read several books of a similar genre including Anna Frank, but none of them are as readable, frightening, or bringing the past of Poland to life as this one.
Leslie
