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Sepetys takes us back to the Spain of Franco, and tells me - who's been in Spain many times and loves the country - even some secrets of the past. A period that has become a taboo. A time when children of the 'enemy' were discriminated against - as they were considered infected with the same 'decease' as their parents. Children abused in orphanages, babies that were taken away from their mothers and adopted into republican families... It was done elsewhere too, but the numbers were so high in Spain. Sepetys spins a beautiful story around the tragedy that mixes reality and fantasy beautifully.
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Shafak has written a very cleverly constructed book, in which stories and times run next to each other and into each other. I am sure I didn't only enjoy it so much because she partly situates it in Iraq. I love her for the way she brought Yezidis into the story, and the atrocities of the radical terror group ISIS. One of those books you cannot put down, that gives new knowledge next to entertainment.
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water.
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In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.
In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. When his brilliant memory earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, the world opens up far beyond the slums and across the seas.
