by Joseph Joffo · Sansoni Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788838309397
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«Un sacchetto di biglie» is the autobiography of Joseph Joffo (Sansoni Editore, paperback, 278 pp., in Italian).
Autobiography of Joseph Joffo about his Jewish childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris. Together with his brother Maurice, Joffo flees through Vichy France to escape persecution: they cross the occupied zone, mature amid dangerous encounters and improvised refuges, and owe their salvation to the help of strangers, including a Catholic priest.
Italian translation of the French original «Un sac de billes», first published in 1973. Part of the «Fette di melone» collection from Sansoni per la Scuola.
Aimed at young and adult readers: an accessible testimony about the Second World War, often used as school reading.
Joseph Joffo was a French author. A noted autobiographer, Joffo was perhaps best known for his memoir Un sac de billes, which has been translated into eighteen languages. Joseph Joffo was married to Brigitte Joffo and had 3 children, Alexandra, Boris, and Franck
