I Am David by HOLM, ANNE

Methuen Children's Books, London: 1982. Softcover. Reading copy. Silent and watchful, David, the boy from the camp tramps across Europe, knowing that at any moment they may catch up with him. He seems as strange to other people as they seem to him. As soon as anybody shows interest in him - like the rich Italian family whose child, for his own reasons, David saves - he knows he must move on. He learns his own identity. Gradually, despite himself, he begins to hope and lose a little of his mistrust. But it is only after many setbacks that David's long and lonely journey ends in unimagined happiness. I am David won First Prize in Scandinavia for fiction for older readers in 1963 and has now become a classic in its own right. Brilliantly written and deeply moving, it is a story full of hope. Translated into English from the Danish L. W. Kingsland. "A most compassionate, powerful, moving book, full of hope and tenderness." - Evening Standard ISBN: 0416884709.