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first published in Great Britain 1985, reprinted 1991,1993,1996, 1997, 1998 text by Ian McEwan based on astory by Christophe Gallaz This is a story which children are seldom told, though the adult world they will enter holds war as central both historically and politically. In this book fascism is a day-to-day reality and only the victims and the little girl have known its real face.