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Vivi's War
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ISBN10: 1732330603
ISBN13: 9781732330603
Publisher: Arkus
Published: Aug 22 2018
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781732330603
Publisher: Arkus
Published: Aug 22 2018
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
How do you find your voice when the world around you is tearing itself apart?
Depicted with remarkable emotional force, Vivi's War provides an unprecedented, luminous glimpse into the coming-of-age of a young girl navigating the dangers of rural wartime France. Caught between the terrifying realities of the German Occupation and the messy, complicated world of adults, Vivi must learn who to trust when a single mistake could cost everything.
Through Vivi's eyes, readers are introduced to the unforgettable inhabitants of la Forêt-Fouesnant:
- A coterie of local collaborators living it up under the Nazi Occupation.
- An enigmatic, androgynous outcast known as Lillimoumoute.
- A mysterious woman who rambles through the dark woods at night.
At the heart of Vivi's journey is a frantic, heartbreaking struggle to understand her mother's sudden, perplexing disappearance-a mystery she is desperate to solve.
After losing her mother, young Vivi is left with little more than religious aphorisms to make sense of a world torn apart by war. In Vivi's War, Marie-Antoinette Alpert revisits her early life to deliver a wrenching, raw account of a refugee family navigating the cruel realities of a small town in Brittany under Nazi rule. As Vivi describes the troubled routine of daily existence alongside her three sisters and a pious grandmother hiding an astonishing secret, her earnest eye misses nothing. She accompanies her itinerant father-an agricultural comptroller covertly attempting to undermine the Vichy regime-on runs to local farms, exploring the countryside on a rusty bicycle and helping him produce a roaming puppet show.
Perfect for teen readers, young adults, and crossover fans of historical memoirs and the French Resistance, this boldly original literary voice offers a fascinating, poignant tale of resilience that will linger with you long after the final page.
- A coterie of local collaborators living it up under the Nazi Occupation.
- An enigmatic, androgynous outcast known as Lillimoumoute.
- A mysterious woman who rambles through the dark woods at night.
At the heart of Vivi's journey is a frantic, heartbreaking struggle to understand her mother's sudden, perplexing disappearance-a mystery she is desperate to solve.
After losing her mother, young Vivi is left with little more than religious aphorisms to make sense of a world torn apart by war. In Vivi's War, Marie-Antoinette Alpert revisits her early life to deliver a wrenching, raw account of a refugee family navigating the cruel realities of a small town in Brittany under Nazi rule. As Vivi describes the troubled routine of daily existence alongside her three sisters and a pious grandmother hiding an astonishing secret, her earnest eye misses nothing. She accompanies her itinerant father-an agricultural comptroller covertly attempting to undermine the Vichy regime-on runs to local farms, exploring the countryside on a rusty bicycle and helping him produce a roaming puppet show.
Perfect for teen readers, young adults, and crossover fans of historical memoirs and the French Resistance, this boldly original literary voice offers a fascinating, poignant tale of resilience that will linger with you long after the final page.
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