{"product_id":"burned-child-seeks-the-fire","title":"Burned Child Seeks the Fire","description":"[A] searing memoir. . . . An enduring, indeed universal, story. \u003cbr\u003eRobert Taylor, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummoned 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. \u003ci\u003eBurned Child Seeks the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is the true story of the love between this mother and daughter, and a piercing example of the tragedies wrought by Nazi Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lacerating, beautifully translated memoir.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mesmerizing. . . . [Has] the concise unreality of a horrifying fairy tale.\"\u003cbr\u003eThomas Frick, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Behind [Edvardson's] deceptively simple prose is a complex and tragic story.\"\u003cbr\u003e Judith Bolton-Fasman, \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cordelia Edvardson's defiant tone challenges us to eschew simplified encounters with the literature and experiences of Holocaust survivors.\"\u003cbr\u003e Paul H. Hamburg, \u003ci\u003eJewish Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eBurned Child Seeks the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is compelling, horrifying, poetic in its intensity.\"\u003cbr\u003e Deborah Peifer, \u003ci\u003eBay Area Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50969244598560,"sku":"9780807070956","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780807070956.jpg?v=1764124659","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/burned-child-seeks-the-fire","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}