12+
Daniela Palumbo
Under Buenos Aires Sky (Novel)
Synopsis By the same Author of "The Auschwitz Suitcase", a novel that tells with strength, intensity and hope about one of the cruelest pages of history. 1952. Goodbye, Italy. A long journey on a large ship should be a magical adventure, a daydream for anyone. Instead, Ines is to abandon everything and leave with a big question mark in her head and melancholy in her heart. Destination: Argentina. In Buenos Aires there is no shortage of colours and new smells, ideas and friendships to be discovered but soon Ines meets on her way a bloody dictatorship and learns a word that will leave a deep mark in her soul: Desaparecidos. Can you really disappear forever? The search for truth goes around the world and come to the present day, touching the lives of Angela Maria, Ines, Estela, Luna, Pablo, all part of a big secret to be revealed and a unique destiny to rebuild.
Excerpt That morning she ran in all rooms, Ines was not there. Even Pablo had disappeared. They had been taken away, a two-year-old boy and a woman with her flower that grew slowly under the dim light of the moon. It was daylight when grandma arrived, called from a neighbour. She looked old. Angela Maria had never been old. But that day, yes, she did. Like a bird returning to the nest, Estela flew into Angela Maria’s arms and only then began to call. She called her mother, invoking little Pablo. Estela was looking for her father, without him she could not keep living. She did not know yet what that word meant. Desaparecidos.
Rights Sold: Italy Extent: 252 Target Group: 12+ About: Migration, Human Rights, Dictatorship, Love
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