Waiting for Anya
In occupied France, a shepherd boy helps smuggle Jewish children across the Pyrenees.
In a village in the Pyrenees under German occupation, a shepherd boy discovers that Jewish children are being hidden at a farm and guided across the mountains into Spain. Morpurgo builds the tension from ordinary things, a widow’s silence and a corporal who likes birds, and asks what courage looks like in people who never intended to be brave.
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