BOOK: Stones in water by Napoli

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Napoli, Donna Jo._Stones in water_,1997

This is a powerful piece of World War II historical fiction.  The book
opens in Italy where some friends go a movie.  One is Jewish but
so they can go together, he removes his armband.  In the middle of
the movie German soldiers come and take everyone and put them
on trains to be sent to work camps in Germany.  Most of the
friends get separated except for Roberto and his Jewish friend.
They endure the extremely harsh conditions of the work camps,
seeing death and suffering all around them while hiding the one
boy's religion.  Finally the Jewish boy dies from a beating and
Roberto escapes having to struggle on his own to get back to Italy.
 This 209 page powerful book demonstrates life in work camps, the
bond of strong friendship and the ability to persevere over all kinds
of conditions living in horrid day-to-day conditions. 
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>This book show
again how versatile a write Napoli is.</color>

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