*Vienna, 1938*. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to Eng
The Wind Knows My Name
β Scribed by Isabel Allende
- Book ID
- 115247761
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593598108
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β¦ Synopsis
This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.
" Both stories are rich enough to carry the weight of one novel, but Allende expertly intertwines them."--The Washington Post
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht--the night his family loses everything. As her child's safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.
Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking...
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