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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. |
