Ark (Benary-Isbert - hardcover)

Author: Margot Benary-Isbert

ISBN: 9798888181676

Binding: hardcover

Section: Childrens-Classics

Two rooms all to themselves⁠—almost too good to be true. For this was postwar Germany, filled with starving, homeless people trying to stay alive amidst the rubble, and to the Lechows the two freezing attic rooms in Mrs. Verduz' house on Parsley Street were an unbelievable stroke of luck.  The Ark paints an honest, realistic picture of the terrible aftermath of war in a defeated country. Most of all, it is the story of courage⁠—the courage of real people who, caught up in the adversity that shattered their lives, can still look at the future with hope and at the past without bitterness.