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   Jun 11, 2024 · Google Rating. A successful juvenile by the beloved New Yorker writer portrays a farm episode with an imaginative twist that makes a poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl. Young Fern Arable pleads for the life of runt piglet Wilbur and gets her father to sell him to a neighbor, Mr. Zuckerman.

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   Jun 3, 2023 · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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   Jun 6, 2023 · Isabel Allende, Francis Riddle (Translator) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938.

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   Nov 12, 2012 · All this is expertly paced, unfurling before the book is half finished; a reader can guess what is coming. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. The scene in which Stella adopts her White persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion.

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   Jun 10, 2023 · The children trapped by geopolitical violence and left to navigate immigration by themselves are the core inspiration for The Wind Knows My Name. The story is a love letter to them, and their ...

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   Jul 25, 2013 · Kate Wilhelm. 3.57. 63 ratings6 reviews. Children of the Wind (1989)The Gorgon Field (1985)A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls (1974)The Blue Ladies (1983)The Girl Who Fell into the Sky (1986) Genres Science Fiction Short Stories Fantasy Fiction. Hardcover.

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   Who wrote the Wind Knows my Name?

   • "The Wind Knows My Name" by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books) Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each other by decades and thousands of miles in her latest novel, “The Wind Knows My Name.”

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   What is the Wind Knows my Name about?

   • The Wind Knows My Name, the newest novel from celebrated Chilean author Isabel Allende, focuses on these people in a sweeping storyline that takes us from Vienna at the outset of the Holocaust to the child internment camps at the present day US border.

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   Is the Wind Knows my Name based on a true story?

   • The Wind Knows My Name is such a story. According to the Author's Note, it began many years ago at a small theater in New York where she saw a performance of Kindertransport, a play based on the true events of children saved from Nazi-controlled territory by organized rescue efforts.

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   Where is the Wind Knows my Name set?

   • When I learned Isabel Allende's new book, The Wind Knows My Name, is set in my hometown of Nogales, Arizona, among other places real and mystical, I put it on the top of my reading list.

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   How long is the Wind Knows my Name?

   • In all, The Wind Knows My Name is a quick 260 pages. It lacks the punch of an Allende novel set in Chile. There is no magical realism other than one clairvoyant character who is a peripheral player at best. While some of the storylines tug at emotions, none of them are anything I didn’t know about prior to reading.

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   How does the Wind Knows my Name answer the debate over refugees?

   • The Wind Knows My Name answers the debate over refugees with a gut punch portrayal of cruelty. The search for safe haven is something Allende and her family have also endured. That lived experience is deeply felt in Anita's imagined conversations with Claudia: "I think Mama is close, that's how it sounded when we got to talk with her on the phone.

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    Jun 5, 2023 · "The Wind Knows My Name" by Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books) . Prolific Latin American-born author Isabel Allende skillfully braids the traumatic stories of two young children separated from each ...