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La coleccionista de huérfanos, Ellen Marie Wiseman ; traducción, Emilio Vadillo

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La coleccionista de huérfanos

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Ellen Marie Wiseman ; traducción, Emilio Vadillo

"Otoño de 1918. Pía Lange es una niña de trece años, hija de inmigrantes alemanes, que vive en las abarrotadas calles de la Filadelfia marginal, donde el sentimiento antialemán es tal que su padre se ve obligado a alistarse en el ejército para demostrar así su lealtad. Sin embargo, el frente en la Primera Guerra Mundial no es el único problema: ha llegado una amenaza aún mayor, la gripe española, una pandemia que se extiende rápidamente por la ciudad causando la muerte por doquier. Sola con sus dos hermanos gemelos, se ve obligada a recorrer las calles en busca de comida y dejarlos solos. Un día, al regresar a casa, sucede lo que menos se espera: sus hermanos no están. ¿Conseguirá Pía recuperar a sus hermanos y descubrir quién se esconde tras su desaparición?" --, back cover"In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded slums and the anti-immigrant sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army. But as her city celebrates the end of war, an even more urgent threat arrives: the Spanish flu. Funeral crepe and quarantine signs appear on doors as victims drop dead in the streets and desperate survivors wear white masks to ward off illness. When food runs out in the cramped tenement she calls home, Pia must venture alone into the quarantined city in search of supplies, leaving her baby brothers behind. Bernice Groves has become lost in grief and bitterness since her baby died from the Spanish flu. Watching Pia leave her brothers alone, Bernice makes a shocking, life-altering decision. It becomes her sinister mission to tear families apart when they're at their most vulnerable, planning to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are "true Americans." Waking in a makeshift hospital days after collapsing in the street, Pia is frantic to return home. Instead, she is taken to St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum - the first step in a long and arduous journey. As Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost in the months and years that follow, Pia must confront her own shame and fear, risking everything to see justice--and love--triumph at last. Powerful, harrowing, and ultimately exultant, The Orphan Collector is a story of love, resilience, and the lengths we will go to protect those who need us most."--, Publisher's description