num_pages: 384
description: A psychoanalyst describes her childhood growing up in war-torn Hungary; her overwhelming encounter with an incomprehensible world of deprivation, separation, and loss; and her painful odyssey through the devastation and homelessness of postwar Europe.
language: English
title: Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War
titlecomplete: Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War
genres: Biography, Hungarian Literature, War, Memoir, Nonfiction, Holocaust, Hungary, History, World War II
ratings_count: 276
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc