by Uri Orlev · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479117658
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«L'illa del carrer dels Ocells» is the children's and young adult novel by Uri Orlev, published by Alfaguara in paperback (197 pages, in Catalan).
During the Second World War, Àlex, a Jewish boy, is left alone in the Warsaw Ghetto: he has lost his mother and his father has been deported. Hidden in a ruined house, he must manage to eat and stay alive while waiting for his father to return. His childlike perspective gives a tone close to adventure to a story marked by the Holocaust.
The work, originally published in Hebrew in 1981, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award (1985), Sydney Taylor (1984) and Zilveren Griffel (1986).
Aimed at young and teenage readers, it addresses the Holocaust and the occupation of Warsaw through children's and young adult literature.
Uri Orlev born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski, was a Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator. He received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1996 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature", the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works in 1972 and the Bialik Prize for literature in 2006.
