White on Black

White on Black
ISBN-10
015603235X
ISBN-13
9780156032353
Series
White on Black
Category
Asylums
Pages
190
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Ruben David Gonsales Galʹego

Description

Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity. Gallego's story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child's growing fascination with books and the worlds he finds in them.

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