Aye-Aye Books Launch: ‘Of Jewish Race’ by Renzo Modiano

Renzo’s story is a neglected fragment of the Holocaust. He tells of the Jews who evaded the horrors of death camps and gas chambers, and had to strive day in, day out for survival in Nazi-occupied Italy. It is the story of a young boy on the run, gradually learning the unthinkable reality of those words, “They’re taking the Jews.”

Following the Liberation, Modiano completed his education and graduated in Political Science from the Sapienza University in Rome.

He is the author of four novels and the winner of the Dino del Bo literary prize. In 2006 he also won the Ultima Frontiera literary prize for Of Jewish Race, which is now also published in an edition for the Italian schools.

Please join us for the launch of the first English translation, in the company of Renzo Modiano, Joe Farrell of Strathclyde University, and Allan Cameron, editorial director of the book’s Glasgow-based publisher, Vagabond Voices.