Fires in the Dark

Chronicles thirty years in the lives of a single gypsy family, the Ruzickas, nomadic farm workers, from the birth of the Ruzickas' son, Frantisek, on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, through the family's incarceration in a labor camp, through Frantisek's escape to live as a thief in Prague, to his desperate and futile attempt to rescue surviving members of his family. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.