The Stars Can Wait
Author: Basu, Jay
ISBN: 9780099425168
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jan 2003
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
'Classy-a moving story about one boy's coming of age' The Guardian
It is the autumn of 1940, one year into the German occupation of Poland. In a small mining village in Upper Silesia, Gracian Sofka is fifteen years old. The past year he has been risking his skin, making expeditions into the forest after curfew to gaze at the stars. By the time six months have passed, Gracian will have journeyed twice more into the forest, the German army will be on the French Atlantic coast, the constellations will have followed their secret paths across the universe, and Pawel, Gracian's beloved elder brother, will be dead.
ISBN: 9780099425168
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jan 2003
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
'Classy-a moving story about one boy's coming of age' The Guardian
It is the autumn of 1940, one year into the German occupation of Poland. In a small mining village in Upper Silesia, Gracian Sofka is fifteen years old. The past year he has been risking his skin, making expeditions into the forest after curfew to gaze at the stars. By the time six months have passed, Gracian will have journeyed twice more into the forest, the German army will be on the French Atlantic coast, the constellations will have followed their secret paths across the universe, and Pawel, Gracian's beloved elder brother, will be dead.
