The Island on Bird Street
first publication date: 1981
original title: האי ברחוב הציפורים
original language: Hebrew
main subject: The Holocaust
narrative location: Poland
ebooks: on Internet Archive
The Island on Bird Street (Hebrew: האי ברחוב הציפורים; The Island on Birds Street) is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's book by Israeli author Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב), which tells the story of a young boy, Alex, and his struggle to survive alone in a ghetto during World War II. The author won the 1996 Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature, largely for this book, which was translated into numerous languages and adapted into a play and a film. The English translation, by Hillel Halkin, was published in 1984. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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