'It is one of those books, like the very best of travel writing, that hits a nely discovered nerve and takes a few steps further towards civilising the planet' Guardian
In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.