Orani: My Father's Village

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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UPC:
9780374356576
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
7/19/2011
Release Date:
7/19/2011
Author:
Claire A. Nivola
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition
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One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely through the town's cobbled streets with packs of cousins, who quizzed her about America while she took in all teh simple joys and pleasures of daily life in a village where surprises met them at every turn.

In this sensuous homage of prose and pictures, Nivola invites readers to share in her experience of Orani, a village where surprises met them at every turn and luxuries were unheard of, but life was rich, lived close to the earth.