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Cargando... The Day the World Stopped Turningpor Michael Morpurgo
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I'm not a big fan of war books. This one is about civilians in WWII. It tells the story of a gypsy family with a carousel that settles in a small town and the people that befriended and sheltered them. Not many books address the fact that gypsies were also targeted by the Nazis as this one does. This book is full of wonderful characters and a great sense of place. I was truly captivated and transported. It is not a child but a much older boy travelling on his own to whom the story is told. This young man falls ill and hears this tale during his recovery shared by an old silver haired woman looking back on her childhood. Another stunning work by Michael Morpurgo. Highly recommended. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town. A soldier shoots a flamingo from the sky and it falls to earth terribly injured. And even worse is to come: the carousel is damaged, the horses broken. For this vulnerable boy, everything is falling apart. Only there's a kind sergeant among the Germans -- a man with a young boy of his own at home, a man who trained as a carpenter. Between them, perhaps boy and man can mend what has been broken -- and maybe even the whole town. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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