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The plateau

Call Number

  • 362.87 P341 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Riverhead Books, 2019.

Physical Description

358 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?"--

Contents

  • Unanswered
  • Days of awe
  • Exodus
  • First on the rope
  • All the little crickets
  • Hands and feet
  • The hunt
  • Hymn to spring
  • La Burle
  • Elsewhere
  • Suffer the children
  • Song of the Cheremsha
  • Along came a spider
  • Mashallah
  • The fruit of the tree.

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