by Aidan Chambers · Red Fox · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862302846
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«Postcards from No Man's Land» is Aidan Chambers's historical fiction novel for young adults, published by Red Fox in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Jacob Todd travels to Amsterdam for the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem, where his grandfather fought. There he meets Geertrui, a sick elderly woman who tells him a story of love and betrayal that links their families. The novel alternates this plot with the Second World War, when Geertrui's family sheltered retreating troops.
Fifth instalment of The Dance Sequence series, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Michael L. Printz Award, originally published in 1999.
Aimed at young readers aged 12 and over; the back cover warns that it is not suitable for younger children.
Aidan Chambers was a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.
