The ventriloquists /
Ramzipoor, E. R.,
The ventriloquists / E.R. Ramzipoor. - 567 pages ; 24 cm.
Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin - daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.
9780778308157 9781489286574 0778308154
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium--Brussels--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature--Belgium--Brussels--Fiction.
Newspapers--Fiction.
Street children--Fiction
Journalists--Fiction.
Brussels (Belgium)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
The ventriloquists / E.R. Ramzipoor. - 567 pages ; 24 cm.
Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin - daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.
9780778308157 9781489286574 0778308154
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium--Brussels--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature--Belgium--Brussels--Fiction.
Newspapers--Fiction.
Street children--Fiction
Journalists--Fiction.
Brussels (Belgium)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.