Kinderszenen

A n old man—poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar—siftsthrough the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like togrow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. The result is Kinderszenen ,a searing and controversial memoir by a major post-war Polish writer that hasevoked both debate and praise, now translated into English for the first time.   The book’s title comes from the suite of piano pieces byRobert Schumann which evoke the innocence and joy of ch