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284 pp.
| Holiday |
October, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1960-6$16.95
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4-6
Ilse and her Jewish family flee Austria in 1939. Unable to obtain visas, they battle poverty in the squalid ghettos of the only country that will take them: Japanese-occupied China. Ilse's friendship with a young street criminal is undeveloped, but Ruby's sense of detail and scale makes this a moving historical portrait.