Tiber Afire

A quiet, leisurely, and moving account of Jewish life in Rome during World War II… . This is a memoir rather than a history, and the author writers with that lack of focus and richness of incident that most young lives contain: the intellectual pretensions and ambitions of his classmates, the anxieties brought by news of invasion or deportations, the simple traumas of adolescence, the strange beauty of Rome–all are portrayed with the same deliberation and seriousness… . [Della Seta] gives a novelistic quality to the story, profound in its pathos and depth. –Kirkus Reviews