A Frost in the Night
By Edith Baer
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Paperback, 9780374424824, 224pp.)
Publication Date: October 1998
Categories: Historical - Europe
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"So good you have to read it twice." -- Joan Blos
It is Germany in 1932, and Hitler is rising to power. This critical place and time in modern history is poignantly re-created through the observations of a young Jewish girl named Eva, who is caught up in the sense of dread shared by the adults around her. Edith Baer has written a novel distilled from memory, love, loss, and sorrow which depicts a girl's impressions of a nation beginning to destroy itself and an entire way of life. A Frost in the Night was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and won the Arnold Gingrich Award for Literature when it was first published in 1980.
Edith Baer is the author of several picture books. She lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
"The gripping story of one Jewish family in the final year of the Weimar Republic. Baer's lucid prose...brilliantly captures a fragile scene or emotion. An honest, eloquent picture of a family whose peaceful existence was doomed." --School Library Journal
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