Fing's War
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Benny Lindelauf, John Nieuwenhuitzen, Dasha TolstikovaAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2019-06-11Release date:6/11/2019Pages:376
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Enchanted LionISBN-13:9781592702695ISBN-10:1592702694UPC:9781592702695Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, FamilyBook Topic:Europe, Holocaust, MultigenerationalSize:8.60 x 5.60 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.15Product ID:SCVJA7FAHC
The Boon family and their indefatigable gallows humor are back in Benny Lindelauf's follow-up to Nine Open Arms.
Poised to win a scholarship to the nearby teachers college, Fing has high hopes. It's 1938 and her poor family of nine--one father, four brothers, three sisters, and a grandmother--has finally managed to eke out a living in the tiny cigar factory abutting their dilapidated home. But smelling success, her dreamer of a father is determined to expand and Fing's dreams fall apart when she instead has to go to work for the Cigar Emperor, taking care of his new, German wife's eccentric niece. The novel's gripping language, enriched by Yiddish, German, and Dutch dialect, plunges the reader into the world of a large, colorful, motherless family as they navigate the changes World War II visits upon their little town on the border of the Netherlands and Germany. This stand-alone follow-up to Nine Open Arms, a 2015 Batchelder Honor book translated from Dutch, is a fantasy, a historical novel, and literary fiction all wrapped into one.
Poised to win a scholarship to the nearby teachers college, Fing has high hopes. It's 1938 and her poor family of nine--one father, four brothers, three sisters, and a grandmother--has finally managed to eke out a living in the tiny cigar factory abutting their dilapidated home. But smelling success, her dreamer of a father is determined to expand and Fing's dreams fall apart when she instead has to go to work for the Cigar Emperor, taking care of his new, German wife's eccentric niece. The novel's gripping language, enriched by Yiddish, German, and Dutch dialect, plunges the reader into the world of a large, colorful, motherless family as they navigate the changes World War II visits upon their little town on the border of the Netherlands and Germany. This stand-alone follow-up to Nine Open Arms, a 2015 Batchelder Honor book translated from Dutch, is a fantasy, a historical novel, and literary fiction all wrapped into one.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Enchanted LionISBN-13:9781592702695ISBN-10:1592702694UPC:9781592702695Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, FamilyBook Topic:Europe, Holocaust, MultigenerationalSize:8.60 x 5.60 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.15Product ID:SCVJA7FAHC
Benny Lindelauf is a multi-award-winning Dutch children's book author who has published twelve books in Holland, several of which have appeared in translation. He also teaches creative writing to adults and children. Nine Open Arms has been translated into six languages, including Czech and Korean, and both it and its Dutch sequel, Fing's War , have won several prestigious awards in the Netherlands. Imagination, wit and drama are crucial ingredients in Benny's stories, where the narrative is always woven together in an exceptional way. Lindelauf once said: "Writing is like moving from one house to the next over and over again." In Nine Open Arms, the writing moves through many rooms and houses, even worlds.
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