Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family by Jordan Mechner is $3 in the US (
Kobo,
Amazon)
Was on my wishlist.
Note: Amazon doesn't let me to "Download and transfer via USB" - maybe my registered Kindle device is too old for this format. Kobo should work fine.
Quote:
A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I.
A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi regime and reunite with his family on the other side of the Atlantic.
The creator of a world-famous video game franchise weighs the costs of uprooting his family and moving to France as the cracks in his marriage begin to grow.
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner calls on the voices of his father and grandfather to weave a powerful story about the enduring challenge of holding a family together in the face of an ever-changing world.
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