Breaking Stalin's Nose

von Eugene Yelchin

178 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A Newbery Honor Book.Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. Eugene Yelchin's moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility.Breaking Stalin's Nose is one of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

• Reihe: Square Fish
• ISBN: 9781250034106
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2013
• Größe: 177 x 139 mm
• Verlag: St. Martins Press