Olga
IBBY Italy Choice 2023
IBBY Italy Choice 2023August 1943. In a transit camp in Germany, a voice calls out, “Olga Boldireva,” and from a corner of the barracks steps forward a thirteen-year-old Russian girl, with light hair and lifeless eyes. At that same moment, Hans, dressed in the uniform of the Hitler Youth, is on his way with his family to receive the state aid granted by current regulations: a nanny. When Olga is taken into Hans’s home, an unexpected and extraordinary friendship blossoms between them. But while she will find, in the folds of war, a chance at freedom, Hans will instead be called to the front and forced to forget that he is little more than a child, as he is turned into a soldier. And when the war ends, he will have to come to terms with the wounds he has left behind.
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