A Frost in the Night
Author | : Edith Baer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : 0844671371 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780844671376 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "So good you have to read it twice." -- Joan Blos It is Germany in 1932, and Hitler is rising to power. This critical place and time in modern history is poignantly re-created through the observations of a young Jewish girl named Eva, who is caught up in the sense of dread shared by the adults around her. Edith Baer has written a novel distilled from memory, love, loss, and sorrow which depicts a girl's impressions of a nation beginning to destroy itself and an entire way of life. A Frost in the Night was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and won the Arnold Gingrich Award for Literature when it was first published in 1980.