They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. Six-year-old Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even h
A new novel by the 1994 winner of the Human Rights Award for Fiction. It tells the story of the child Ruth and how difficult it is for her to understand political violence. Set in the Jewish community in South Africa in the late 1920s
