Burned Child Seeks the Fire by Cordelia Edvardson

Burned Child Seeks the Fire by Cordelia Edvardson

A] searing memoir. . . . An enduring, indeed universal, story.
Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, fourteen-year-old Cordelia Edvardson was given a terrible choice: to acknowledge her secret Jewish heritage and suffer the consequences or to see her mother charged with treason. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is the true story of the love between this mother and daughter, and a piercing example of the tragedies wrought by Nazi Germany.

A lacerating, beautifully translated memoir.
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Mesmerizing. . . . Has] the concise unreality of a horrifying fairy tale.
Thomas Frick, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Behind Edvardson's] deceptively simple prose is a complex and tragic story.
Judith Bolton-Fasman, Newsday

Cordelia Edvardson's defiant tone challenges us to eschew simplified encounters with the literature and experiences of Holocaust survivors.
Paul H. Hamburg, Jewish Book World

To see the horrors of the Holocaust through a child's eye is to experience hell. Cordelia Edvardson's astonishing story captures, with a terrifying reality, a child's response to the myriad atrocities of the Nazis and their murderous regime. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is compelling, horrifying, poetic in its intensity.
Deborah Peifer, Bay Area Reporter

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ISBN 13	9780807070956
ISBN 10	0807070955
Title	Burned Child Seeks the Fire
Author	Cordelia Edvardson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	1998-06-01
Number of pages	116
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.