Before Nightfall
$32.42
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
A moving tale about a brave hearing-impaired teen losing his vision, told through the perspective of his loving sister in poetry, prose, and the sign-language alphabet.
Carlo is a teenager who happens to be hearing-impaired and can see only out of one eye. Now that eye is failing, and Carlo must have an operation to try to save his vision. His fierce and funny sister Emma, Carlo’s closest companion, begins writing poems that express the fear she works hard to hide, while his seeing-ey…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681377926 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681377926 |
| Author: | Silvia Vecchini, Sualzo |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Kids |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Silvia Vecchini
Silvia Vecchini was born in 1975 in Perugia. She loves poetry and has written several books for children and young adults. She regularly holds workshops and events based on her works, as well as designs courses for schools and runs teacher trainings.
Antonio “Sualzo” Vincenti is an author and comics illustrator. He won the Festi’DB di Moulins in 2009, best screenplay category, for L’Improvvisatore, and was named finalist in the Micheluzzi Award in 2010.
Geoffrey Brock is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Voices Bright Flags, and the translator of a number of books, including editions of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio and The Tenderness of Stones.
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