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Behind the Door
'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding. Not now. Not ever.' School is a place of unspoken hierarchies, rivalries for a boy growing up. As the everyday classroom and playground dramas are played out, they begin to reflect the disturbing undertones of '30s Italy: he realizes that being Jewish means he will always be excluded. The 4th Romanzo di Ferrara's, is a luminous portrayal of childhood friendship and the loss of innocence.