Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally
acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of
a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second
World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without
your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in
Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise,
that your own father was one of those people.That is what happened
to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy
with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of
political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler,
the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with
her own small life.Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for
her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing.
Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their
mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home
and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany…
關於作者:
Judith Kerr was born in Berlin, the daughter of a
distinguished German writer. She left Germany with her family in
1933 to escape from the Nazis and they arrived in England in 1936,
having spent the intervening years in Switzerland and France. She
is married to writer Nigel Kneale and they have two children