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Christine Arnothy - I am fifteen and I do not want to die: The True Story of a Young Woman’s Wartime Survival - 9780007328673 - KTG0012795
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I am fifteen and I do not want to die: The True Story of a Young Woman’s Wartime Survival

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The compelling and moving narrative of a young girl caught by the tides of marching armies during the siege of Budapest in 1945.

Told with calm compulsive force, and with an intimacy and maturity that defies the author’s youth, I am fifteen is a poignant coming-of-age memoir, and a remarkable tale of ordinary lives destroyed by war.

Budapest in early 1945: the siege – which was to kill some 40,000 civilians – raged around Christine Arnothy, her family and the ... Read more

Praying she would survive, and mourning the loss of some of her fellow refugees, Christine found solace in her writing – in pencil on a small notepad in the cellar – and dreamt of becoming a writer at the end of the war.

Her subsequent adventures include a dramatic escape over the frontier into Austria, to Vienna and freedom (or so she imagined); then the difficult decision to leave her parents in an Allied refugee camp, while she searched for a new life in Paris.

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007328673
SKU
KTG0012795
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Christine Arnothy
Christine Arnothy, daughter of an Austro-Hungarian father and a German-Polish mother, was born in Budapest in 1930. She now lives in Switzerland.

Reviews for I am fifteen and I do not want to die: The True Story of a Young Woman’s Wartime Survival
‘Outstanding in the literature of war. It has the abruptness, shadows and tensions of the best films, but superimposed is the knowledge that the cruelty and destruction are true.’ The Times ‘She is one of the few writers capable of describing what it feels like to be an ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for I am fifteen and I do not want to die: The True Story of a Young Woman’s Wartime Survival


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