Shadows of a childhood
Subtitle: a novel of war and friendship
By: Elisabeth Gille ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale.
Contributors: Coverdale, Linda.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Fiction.; Friendship -- Fiction.; Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.; Bordeaux (France) -- Fiction.
Description: Elisabeth Gille was five years old when her mother, the Russian writer Irene Nemirovsky, was deported to Auschwitz at the height of her career and never seen again. Gille was hidden in the French countryside with her sister until the war was over. Shadows of a Childhood, winner of Elle's 1997 Grand Prix des Lectrices, is her story, a fictionalized account of one individual's - and one country's - coming to terms with the war.