Synopsis A best-seller in France, Un Sac de Billes has been made into a well-known film, is used as a text in French schools, and has been translated into nineteen languages. Written in a lively, colloquial style, this largely autobiographical work describes the successive flights of two young Jewish boys from persecution in France in World War II and the resilience and initiative they needed to survive. The author has succeeded in preserving the freshness of a child's eye view of events, and his account of childhood adventures set in exceptional circumstances is a story full of humour and vitality, despite being set against the backcloth of Holocaust Europe. The introduction sets the events of Un Sac de Billes in their historical context. It enquires into the causes of antisemitism in France before and during the 1940s, and examines the way French people thought and felt in this period.
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