Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

Eva Zimmermann is eight years old and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Evas family full of eccentric and opinionated adults will do absolutely anything to keep her safe―even if it means hiding her identity from her. With razor-sharp depictions of her animated relatives Haya Leah Molnars memoir of her childhood captures with touching precocity the very adult realities of living behind the iron curtain.. Under a Red Sky is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Childrens Book of the Year.