by Mirjam Pressler · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475969824
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«Malka Mai» is the historical novel by Mirjam Pressler, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (368 pages, in Catalan).
In 1943, the girl Malka and her mother, a Jewish doctor, flee on foot from Poland to Hungary across the Carpathians. When Malka falls ill, her mother leaves her with some peasants; but the girl ends up in a ghetto, where she must survive hunger, cold and Nazi violence while her mother tries to rescue her from Budapest.
Translation by Anna Gasol. Originally published in German. Belongs to the L'Odissea collection from Empúries. Won the Deutscher Bücherpreis in 2002.
Recommended for young and adult readers interested in historical fiction about the Holocaust and survival.
