Portrait of an Innocent

In this evocative retracing of a childhood long-gone, leading to his family's migration from Spain to Australia when he was 10 years old, Ivan Cañadas Fraile gives voice to the child he once was. In part, an unflinchingly candid confession-sometimes humorous, sometimes troublingly enigmatic-Portrait of an Innocent brings together personal experiences, often universal but also vividly particular. Memorable events of those years-as well as stories of the past, and the author's commentary-provide f