White on black
By: Ruben Gallego ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
Contributors: Schwartz, Marian
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Orlando, Florida
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Gonsales Galʹego, Ruben David -- Fiction; Orphanages -- Fiction; Asylums -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
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.
Notes: Translation of: Beloe na chernom