About the book: 2010 / Dan Vittorio Segre's childhood takes place in fascist Italy of the 1920-1930s. Raised by the mayor of a small Italian town, he eventually - after the economic collapse of 1929 and the introduction of Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws - finds himself on board a ship sailing to Tel Aviv: a sixteen-year-old boy with a first-class ticket, completely unprepared for the difficulties of Israeli life in the years The Second World War. Memoirs of Segre - a string of lively, voluminous, colorful images and curious events, which are strung on a thread of subtle humor and accompanied by deep reflections on the historical upheavals of the 20th century.