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Overview
In April 1941 the Nazis invade Zagreb, Croatia. Alex, a young teenager, has a crush on his mousey teacher, Rachel, 27. Alex and Rachel are both Jews, and though Alex escapes into the surrounding mountains, Rachel, who is also a Communist, is tortured and murdered. Alex spends the war fighting with Tito's partisans, moves to Italy after the war, and eventually to Canada and the U.S. In California he marries a much younger Chicana woman, Maria, but can never forget Rachel. This longish narrative in a highly poetic style relates Alex's story as he tells it to a much younger friend.
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- ISBN-13: 9781999040215
- ISBN-10: 199904021X
- Publisher: Little Wing Press
- Publish Date: August 2020
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.07 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.24 pounds
- Page Count: 26
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