Dimensions
129 x 198 x 13mm
David lay quite still in the darkness of the camp, waiting for the signal.
"You must get away tonight," the man had told him. "Stay awake so that you're ready just before the guard is changed. When you see me strike a match, the current will be cut off and you can climb over - you'll have half a minute for it, not more."
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 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 set-backs 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. It is a compassionate, powerful, moving book, full of hope and tenderness.
