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| Author | Haya Leah Molnar |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 2010 |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| ISBN | 9780374318406 |
Under a Red Sky is a 2010 memoir by Haya Leah Molnar about the life of a young Jewish girl living in Communist Romania. The full name of the book is Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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Under a Red Sky received reviews from sources including the Jewish Book Council, [1] Publishers Weekly, [4] and Kirkus Reviews. [5] The reviews were generally positive.
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