Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents’ divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.
Related: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Israel
- ISBN: 9780395656600
- Author: Orlev, Uri
- Translator: Halkin, Hillel
- Published: 1993
- Themes: Childhood, Divorce, parents, Struggle, War
- Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Israel