by Joseph Joffo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425328329
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«Un saco de canicas» is the autobiographical novel by Joseph Joffo, published by Grijalbo in paperback (290 pages, in Spanish).
In occupied Paris, Joffo, a Jewish hairdresser, separates his family to protect it. His sons Joseph and Maurice, aged ten and twelve, cross France towards the free zone dodging checkpoints. Amid fear, roguishness and friendship, the account from childhood shows the loss of innocence in the Second World War.
Spanish translation by Luis María Todó. It is the first installment of the series «Un sac de billes»; the French original was published in 1973.
For readers looking for a survival story told from a child's perspective during the Second World War.
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
