The World behind the Mountains

by Madelaine Chaproll

Overview

Two girls living in a children's colony discuss the times we live in – a fictional conversation that presents us with a view of the adult world as seen through eyes of innocence. In this story, the city child Cherub tells colon child Bun about the sad reality of the world beyond the mountains, to make her understand why she neve wants to grow up. The tender, pure soul of little Cherub could never have survived in the harsh, unjust realit of that world, but she tries to convince the good, strong Bun that it's her duty to fight the evil outside the colony for the sake of future generations of children. It's essential, says Cherub, that all the children of this worl should disempower the adults in order to create a fairer human society – a world worth living in. Bun is to try to establish a new world order in which the innocence of the children's world remains inviolable.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162910817
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/09/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	188 KB

About the Author

About Madelaine Chaproll
Madelaine Chaproll was born a migrant child in Romania. She was five when she first entered an orphanage. Her life was one of permanent moving: new towns, new boarding homes, new schools. But despite of all this her childhood was an absolutely ordinary one. The tremendous power of her phantasy could transform even the saddest moments in her life into joy and hope. She would call herself a blessed child. Books and the study of ballet and music brought colour and beauty into her life, allowing her to often ignore the grey reality. She studied at a commercial college and later married an ethnic German engineer, with whom she emigrated a few years later to Germany. "If with my writing I can induce some people in this world to dream and think about goodness, then I am happy.”