During Pnina Granirer’s seventh year, picture making became a
consuming passion while creating fairytale illustrations for her
schoolmates. This passion grew even as fascism and anti-Semitism
increasingly shadowed her world in Romania of the WWII era.
Light Within the Shadows chronicles Granirer’s journey to
becoming an internationally respected artist whose profound work
is an enduring expression of the search for beauty and spirituality
that only humans employ.
This lively and moving memoir is the truly amazing story of
Granirer’s life as an artist and a person. Like a play in three acts set
in three countries — Romania, Israel, and Canada — it tells how
the artist navigated wars and upheavals, tense political and social
climates, and huge life changes. With incredible determination and
resilience, amidst the joys and restrictions of family life, Granirer
created a large body of art, ignoring trends and searching for
renewal and new ideas.