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Laddar... Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cubaav Margarita Engle, Mary Morgan (Illustratör)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Narrated by four readers. Here's a book about an aspect of WWII history I hadn't heard about: Jewish refugees in Cuba. During the war Cuba took in 60,000 refugees, more than any other Latin American country and about as much as the United States. This poetry novel is told through four perspectives, the main one being Daniel, a 12-year-old boy sent off on the boat because his parents could only afford one passage. David is an older Ukraine Jew who sells ice cream and has lived in Cuba for decades. Young Paloma secretly assists the Quakers with the refugees, unbeknownst to her father, El Gordo, who profits from selling entry visas to the Jews. An intriguing story for what it means to be to be free. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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"My parents are musicians--/poor people, not rich." (p. 6)
Really? Isn't "not rich" what "poor" means? I know I'm getting all up on my high horse here, but poetry should be precise. There should be no wasted words. The ability to fit so much meaning into so few words is what sets poetry apart and makes it great. Sadly, this book read like flowery prose with shortened lines. ( )