A un passo da un mondo perfetto
Germany, 1944. Eleven-year-old Iris and her family have moved to a town near Berlin. Their lovely new home is encircled by a huge garden, tended to by a gardener. Iris knows little about him, except that he’s a Jew who lives in the concentration camp where her father is the deputy commandant. Iris has been told not to speak to him, but her curiosity gets the better of her. Day by day a secret friendship strikes up that will tear down the invisible wall between them and capsize the perfect world that Iris thought she lived in.
An unusual point of view, to tell the tragedy of the Shoah.
A coming-of-age story which puts at its center the building of your own identity and freedom of thought.
A book beloved both by young people and critics, awarded in Italy with the Premio Gladius 2020, Premio Castello, Premio Minerva.
Daniela Palumbo was born in Rome in 1965. She works as a journalist, and she started publishing children’s books in 1998, with a book about disability. She lives in Milan, where she works for the monthly magazine “Scarp de’ Tenis”, a historic street newspaper. Her books have been translated in many different languages.
