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    A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of A Bag of Marbles with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo, an autobiographical novel which follows the author and his brother Maurice as they set off alone to escape the Nazi-occupied zone in the north of France and travel to freedom in the south of the country. On their way, the two children must use all their wits and resourcefulness to survive, and although they witness the horrors of the war and the brutality of the Nazi regime first-hand, they also find help and hope in the unlikeliest of places. A Bag of Marbles was first published in 1973 and is Joffo’s best-known novel. It has sold several million copies to date, been translated into 18 languages and been adapted for the cinema twice, most recently in 2017.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9782806270443
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      A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      FRENCH WRITER

      Born in Paris in 1931.

      Notable works:

      A Bag of Marbles(1973), novel

      Baby-foot (1977), novel

      Tendre été (Tender Summer, 1981), novel

      Joseph Joffo is a French author of Jewish descent, and was born in 1931. He initially worked as a hairdresser, before taking up writing to exorcise the demons of a childhood shaped by the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Holocaust. This exercise in introspection resulted in A Bag of Marbles, which quickly became an international bestseller.

      His work is mostly autobiographical, although he has also written some works of fiction, including Anna and her Orchestra (1975), which is loosely based on his mother’s life, and Le Cavalier de la Terre Promise (The Knight from the Promised Land, 1983), as well as short stories such as Bashert (2009).

      It is worth noting that Joffo’s writing process involves producing a first draft himself before using a ghostwriter to polish the text. This means that the final, published books are not purely his own work.

      A JEWISH CHILD’S JOURNEY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

      Genre: autobiographical novel

      Reference edition: Joffo, J. (2001) A Bag of Marbles. Trans. Sokolinsky, M. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

      1st edition: 1973

      Themes: hope, anti-Semitism, Occupation, Holocaust, solidarity, brotherhood

      A Bag of Marbles is an autobiographical novel by Joseph Joffo. It was first published in 1973 and is set between 1941 and 1944,

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