First Words
Subtitle: A Childhood in Fascist Italy
Edition: 2nd Rep edition
Publisher: Owl Books
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780805067385
Subjects: Biography: general; The Holocaust; Historical - Holocaust; Childhood Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Italy; Literary; History / Italy; Europe - Italy; Historical - General; Military - World War II
First sentence: IF I GO BACK IN TIME and think of when I first heard the word Jew, I see myself sitting on a little blue chair in the nursery, a room with flowery peach-colored wallpaper showing the marks of children's scribbles.