num_pages: 243
description: Paris 1941: The Nazis arrive... the hunt for the Jews begins...Armed only with their knapsacks, 50 francs and unlimited nerve, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his twelve-year-old brother Maurice set out one night on a harrowing journey to elude the Nazi death machine. It would take them three incredible years and lead them across the whole of France - stealing, scrounging, living by their wits, danger always a hairbreadth behind them. Then one day in Nice their luck ran out. Their Nazi tormentors pinned them down. Jo an Maurice found themselves in Gestapo headquarters, facing the greatest test of their lives.
language: English
title: A Bag of Marbles
titlecomplete: A Bag of Marbles
genres: Historical, History, Classics, School, Biography, World War II, Holocaust, France, French Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 8463
series: Un Sac de Billes
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Reality-Based Work, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Prix Broquette-Gonin de l'Académie Française
category: Littérature
publisher: BANTAM BOOKS