Gyerekvonat

Author: Viola Ardone
Binding method: softboard glued
Publication: 2020
Publisher: Athenaeum Publishing
Page number: 240
After the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of children were orphaned or semi-orphaned. As in many child rescue operations around the world at that time, children were sent by train from Naples to the northern part of Italy, where the little ones could live in better conditions for a few months. Amerigo Speranza, the barely eight-year-old boy, is also sent to Modena by his illiterate, penniless mother, so that he can fatten up a bit while growing up in a foreign family and rest from the mental upheavals of the war. Ameri...