The Girl Who Watched the Trains Depart


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In the 1940s, in a world ravaged by war, Charlotte, an eight year- old Belgian girl, disappears from Nazi-occupied Liège, leaving behind her home and happy childhood. Together with her family, she flees from persecutors, experiencing incredible adventures and hiding in squalid hiding places in towns and cities. Alter, her uncle, forced to take up duties in one of the ghettos where Hitler ordered the confinement of Jews —including his own parents— must face an extreme ethical dilemma. Dimitri Amilakvari, a French soldier of Georgian origin, lands in North Africa at the head of the legendary Foreign Legion, to confront Marshal Rommel and his feared Afrika Korps. Domingo López Delgado, a Uruguayan soldier, enlists as a volunteer in the Free French forces and is assigned to Bir Hakeim. Four life stories that intertwine to transport us back in time. 

Pages344
Published2026
ISBN-139789657801918
Dimensions15 × 22 cm
Weight0.48 kg

“We are, then, before a book that must be read, both for what it narrates and for the form it has chosen to do so… Ruperto Long has moved us with his humanity and his style. It is not at all easy to sustain so many different voices without them sounding the same. Quite an achievement.”
-Francisco Javier Velasco Oliaga, Todoliteratura (Spain), translated from Spanish

“It is not just another book about the war… the book is a song of hope and freedom.”
-Nelsa Curbelo, El Universo (Ecuador), translated from Spanish

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