Everything Sad Is Untrue /
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TextPublisher: New York : Levine Querido, 2020Description: 368 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781646140008 :Genre/Form: Children's and Teenage: General Fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: Biographical fiction | Children's / Teenage general interest: People & places | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues | Children's / Teenage: Social issues | Middle East | United States of America, USADDC classification: 813.6 Summary: At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much.But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan.We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry "Akh, Tamar!" and touched carpets woven with precious gems.Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).It is Daniel's.
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| JF .M958 2015 Rise and fall / | JF .M959 2014 Trash / | JF .M996 1999 Monster / | JF .N331 2020 Everything Sad Is Untrue / | JF .N334 Der zerbrochene Krug / | JF .N458 1995 The railway children / | JF .N458 2010 Doctor Proctor's fart powder / |
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much.But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan.We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry "Akh, Tamar!" and touched carpets woven with precious gems.Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).It is Daniel's.
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