Showing results for "World Pass" in Literature & Fiction

Tomi est indomptable. Espiègle, têtu, malin, rebelle, bref, Tomi a 14 ans. Du haut de son arbre préféré, il rêve de filles, d'avenir, de gloire. Mais nous sommes en Hongrie et en 1944. L'adolescent, juif, est déporté avec son père et son meilleur ami. Pour échapper à la mort, il se dit tailleur : le voilà affecté au raccommodage des uniformes rayés. Son coup de bluff se transforme alors en coup de foudre : Tomi tombe fou amoureux de la couture, vocation qui sauvera sa peau et illuminera son destin.

Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother - or what happened to her. When Dahlia’s father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she’s desperately lonely. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she’s white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him.

1942. When Helda Dahlstrøm flees her abusive husband and Nazi-occupied Norway with her eight-year-old son she doesn't know if they'll make it out alive. In her desperate journey to safety she'll find safety on the rocky shores of the Shetland Islands, rescued by Canadian Flight Sergeant Bill Gauthier. As WWII's destruction rages at their doorsteps, can love find its way through the rubble?

It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts and obituaries, whilst dreaming of a more exciting life. Between her shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing father, the chance for escape doesn't come often to Devon. Meanwhile, in America's Deep South, Sam Archer is hatching a plan to raise enough money to get his mother and sister away from his abusive stepfather.

"Le passe-muraille" de Marcel Aymé (recueil de nouvelles en 1943), n'a pas, au contraire du "Huis clos" de Sartre, de prétention philosophique. Le merveilleux du "passe-muraille" fait office de métaphysique. Marcel Aymé parlant de la littérature pour enfants : "la vie quotidienne leur offre plus rarement qu'aux adultes ce visage ingrat qui incite à chercher hors du réel un refuge ou une revanche... Le monde réel, solide, qu'ils commencent à interroger, ne leur a pas apporté de déceptions suffisamment graves pour qu'ils éprouvent le besoin de s'en absenter...".