White on Black

Name: White on Black
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ISBN: 9780156032353

ISBN-10: 015603235X

ISBN-13: 9780156032353

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ruben Gallego, Marian Schwartz

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This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity. And yet there is no self-pity here, no bitterness, only an unfailing regard for the truth. Gallego's story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child's growing fascination with…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

RUBEN GALLEGO was separated from his family at the age of one. He lived in Russia and worked as a computer specialist until 2000, when he was reunited with his mother. Gallego now lives in Freiburg, Germany. Winner of the 2003 Russian Booker Prize