Fragmentos de uma Vida

Fragments of a Life is a memoir by Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. The book portrays Aharon Appelfeld's childhood, which ends abruptly at the age of seven. In 1941, the Nazis occupy his hometown, Czernowitz. The boy is placed in a ghetto and later in a labor camp with his father, but he manages to escape and survives alone in hiding for three years. The narrative shows the horrors of war through the fragmented and innocent eyes of a child.