Carl Friedman

A World War II concentration camp survivor's story, recounted by his eight-year-old daughter. At first the father tries to present the experience in terms suitable for children, then finding that he is getting nowhere he abandons euphemisms and becomes brutally frank. The novel's interest is in the girl's reaction, as well as that of two other children to such subjects as gassings, beatings and murder. The author is a Dutch poet and this is his first...