Vertaling: Sjaak de Jong
Oorspronkelijke titel: Miracle at St. Anna
Een fictief verhaal, geïnspireerd op ware gebeurtenissen en echte mensen.
Gebruikmakend van individuele en collectieve ervaringen van zwarte militairen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het Serchiodal en de Apuaanse Alpen in Italië.

Conditie: paar vlekjes op de snee, ex-libris van een vorig eigenaar op de franse pagina.

Van de auteur van 'De kleur van water', bekroond met de prestigieuze Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

James McBride (born September 11, 1957)[1] is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.
His memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1995), describes his family history and his relationship with his mother
McBride is well known for his 1995 memoir, the bestselling book The Color of Water, which describes his life growing up in a large, poor American-African family led by his white Jewish mother. She was strict and the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi. During her first marriage, to Rev. Andrew McBride, she converted to Christianity and became a devout Christian. The memoir, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,[5] spent over two years on The New York Times bestseller list, and has become an American classic. It is read in high schools and universities across America, has been translated into 16 languages, and sold more than 2.5 million copies.[6]

In 2002, McBride published a novel, Miracle at St. Anna, drawing on the history of the overwhelmingly African-American 92nd Infantry Division in the Italian campaign from mid-1944 to April 1945. The book was adapted into the 2008 movie Miracle at St. Anna, directed by Spike Lee.
(bron: Wikipedia)

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