March 18, 1938: Five days after Hitler marches into Vienna, Eric Lamet - then age eight - and his family flee Austria for safety in Italy where they will stay for several years. In this compelling memoir, Lamet relives the time of his boyhood in an Italy torn by war and chained by Fascism. This is a recollection of rare emotional sweep. Initially, Lamet tells his story from a child's point of view, passing from boyhood and the face of catastrophe to adolescence in a shadowy foreign land. He describes the fate of foreign Jews and political prisoners in Fascist Italy as well as Jews in Greater Europe. The writer's style is as original as his content, at once candidly recalling a dark time yet imbued with humanity and wit.
- ISBN10 0815608853
- ISBN13 9780815608851
- Publish Date 1 May 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Syracuse University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English