![]() ![]() But compared to the horrors he has suffered, can freezing be worse? Using the shimmering language that has marked her books Zel and The Magic Circle, Donna Jo Napoli writes a wrenching novel of a boy caught up in a war he hates. ![]() Escape is Roberto's only hope, but the Russian winter is upon the land - and any hope seems remote. For Roberto, the present is unbearable - backbreaking work, near starvation, and protecting Samuele's secret that, if discovered, would mean death for both boys. And it's the ending to all they've known - before their lives as children in Venice, their innocence. The boys have now become part of the war, providing forced labor for the Nazis at various work camps deep inside German territory. The day Roberto and his friend Samuele are rounded up by German soldiers and put on a train marks both a beginning and an end. ![]()
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