"Published in Great Britain 2002 by Young Picador. First published in 2001 in Germany by Beltz Verlag, Weinheim und Basel as Malka Mai"--T.p. verso.
Summary
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.
