Toivo Pekkanen: The faraway island | Books from Finland
Their minds were filled with but one thought: the lonely faraway island in the middle of the sea. Day by day their imaginations attached to it all the wonders that they could possibly invent. Night by night their dreams were filled with nothing but trips to the island and events and adventures in its enchanted thickets.
A Faraway Island - LitPick Book Reviews
In 1936, during Hitler's reign, two Jewish sisters who live a wealthy life in Vienna have no choice but to be shipped off to Sweden for their own protection from the war and the German Nazis. Twelve-year-old Stephie and seven-year -old Nellie Steiner are then placed in the homes of two women who live on an island just off the shore of Sweden.
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor - librisnotes.blogspot.com
2012年1月8日 · A Faraway Island is the first book in a four book series by Swedish author, Annika Thor, about two Austrian-Jewish sisters who are sent to live in Sweden during the Second World War. The books were written in 1996 and have recently …
Juhani Niemi on Toivo Pekkanen's short story Kaukainen saari
The working-class writer Toivo Pekkanen (1902–1957) broke sharply from the idealism of his contemporaries. In the short story Kaukainen saari (‘The faraway island’, 1945) he gives poetic voice to the sense of disillusion that the traumatic events of the first half of the 20th century engendered in him.
The Journey: A Faraway Island by Annika Thor
2011年4月9日 · Annika Thor’s evocative writing in A Faraway Island takes us back in time and delivers a heartfelt story about a family that is separated as a result of the invasion of the Nazis. The winner of the Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States.
A Faraway Island - Historical Novel Society
A Faraway Island. Written by Annika Thor Linda Schenck (trans.) Review by Tamela McCann . During the early years of World War II, 500 Jewish children were allowed entry into Sweden, expecting it to be a temporary stop while awaiting their parents on the way to America.
A Faraway Island, by Annika Thor – Book Nook Bits
2019年8月26日 · A Faraway Island is about two Jewish sisters, Stephie and Nellie, who are sent to live on an island is Sweden because of World War Two. They and their mother and father all used to live happily in Vienna, Austria, but since the German invasion, their father had been forbidden to continue working as a…
A Faraway Island: Thor, Annika, Schenck, Linda: 9780385905909: …
2009年11月10日 · A Faraway Island was published by Random House in 2009, its sequel, The Lily Pond, in 2011, and the third book about the Jewish refugee girls Stephie and Nellie, Deep Sea, in January 2015. The fourth and final volume, Open Sea, is now available as an e …
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A Faraway Island. Translated by Linda Schenck. Delacorte Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780385736176 (Ages 9- 12) Description: As the persecution of the Jews escalated at the beginning of World War II,...
The Faraway Island - Books for Keeps
2008年9月2日 · People have different ways of finding happiness and this story is about a sailor who yearns for solitude after a long life at sea. He finds refuge on a barren island and lives there until the Queen of Portugal, informed about his existence by the crews of passing ships, demands his presence at her palace.