Age
12+
Grade
2-4
Gaye Hicyilmaz
Pictures from the Fire
Paperback
(Dolphin Paperbacks April 1, 2003)
Emilia's family are Romanian gypsies and believe she has brought shame on them. Locked in the family's rooms in a refugee hostel, isolated and afraid, she finds a notebook and begins to draw a picture diary of her lifepoverty and persecution in Bucharest, the family's flight to England hidden in a lorry, her joy at going to school, and the family's abrupt departure following a race riot. And as she finishes the last picture, she is shocked into an act of courage that may open the door to freedom. Gaye Hicyilmaz has a rare gift of empathy and her picture of the closed world of Romanian gypsies, and of the racial hatred they encounter, is truthful, uncompromising, and compelling.
- ISBN
- 1858818966 / 9781858818962
- Pages
- 264
- Weight
- 8.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 1.0 in.
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