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Father Tomor, or Albania according to Jean BrŽcot

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Father Tomor, or Albania according to Jean BrŽcotFather Tomor, or Albania according to Jean Brcot, is the French communist Gaston Monmousseau's book about his trip to Albania in 1956. Under the pen name Jean Brcot, Monmousseau wrote travel books recounting his visits with the people of China, Albania and various regions of France. Visiting the entire country, both the cities and the countryside, he encapsulates the spirit of a nation working hard to overcome the dark blotches of feudalism, fascism

Father Tomor, or Albania according to Jean BrŽcot, is the French communist Gaston Monmousseau's book about his trip to Albania in 1956. Under the pen-name Jean BrŽcot, Monmousseau wrote travel books recounting his visits with the people of China, Albania and various regions of France. Visiting the entire country, both the cities and the countryside, he encapsulates the spirit of a nation working hard to overcome the dark blotches of feudalism, fascism and obscurantism which remained in Albanian society as remnants of the past. This is not a book for those who want to see an ideal utopia portrayed Ñ Monmousseau shows Albania as it was in 1956, living amongst the people and learning from them about their rich culture, and refusing to impose his own values. It shows what a people, determined and free, can accomplish. Even in the 12 years since Liberation, tremendous changes had occurred. In a country where 12 years prior there was no modern working class and the vast masses were subject to an illiterate life toiling for their lord, there had emerged not only modern cities with modern construction projects and modern methods of industry and agriculture, but modern ideas. A full-scale cultural revolution was sweeping Albania, and the sons and daughters of the backward ideals and customs were rapidly being pushed onto the path to progress by the Party of Labour of Albania and the peopleÕs state power. It is a society in transition, a life in transition, and that is something more beautiful than a typified final product. Comrade Enver Hoxha, when he described this book, called it "a very pleasant book about our country by a glorious veteran of communism." Indeed, it is a book for those who love Albania, its history, culture and people, without preconditions or reservations.

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★★★★★ 5
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This book is part historical fiction and part sci-fi. I bought because we like getting the Newberry award winner every year. We loved this story. It was fun read a book placed when I was kid and see/show my kids how much the world has changed, but it also had a fun time travel element. This coming of age follows a kid and his worries about Y2k. He deals with the death of a friend and worries about everything. We loved this story and it's special sections back i to the future making it easy to believe that time travel is real.
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L. J. Rinaldi
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Time travel books are fun. You have to wrap your head around how they work out in the end. This time travel book sort of sneaks up on you, in that other things are going on while Ridge, the time traveler, is checking out 1999. For those who were alive in 1999, we all worried about Y2K, when all the computers would stop working. Scientists worked hard to make sure that it wouldn’t, and at the time, only one bank had trouble after the new year began. Other than that, we were all fine, and life went on. Micheal, is obsessed with Y2K, and when he learns that Ridge is from the future, it is all he wants to know about, and Ridge can’t tell him, as the event is too close. He can tell him how he got his name, and a little about how life is like in the future, but that is about it. But Ridge is the first time traveler, and he has no idea if anything he says will change things, so he has to be very careful. He has no idea what he will find when she returns home, and so worries about everything he says. I really enjoyed this book. I marked several passages that spoke to me. And even the title is such a good thing to bring up and explain, in that it means living in the present time. Not worrying about the future or the past.
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B. Borup
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★★★★★ 4
Fantasy
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Not my favorite genre however the book is written really well and my students who love fantasy loved this book
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Afoma
New York, US
★★★★★ 5
Brilliant
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The First State of Being is a brilliant, highly readable middle grade book from the QUEEN of character-driven middle grade literature. This expansive sci-fi feels at once introspective and cinematic, leaping off the page like something made for a movie. This book will help young people and all readers reflect on our past and future as a human community, especially in terms of health advances, animal extinction, and the potential for technological development. It also highlights the love and fight in a mother and the need to view life through a positive lens by focusing most on the present, not our past or future.
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Terry Jennings
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Of course this won the Newberry award. From the first word, it reminded me of Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista. A plot so different and imaginative that you wonder how anyone could have thought of it and then carried it out. It's a story of a young boy who is trying to take care of the single mother who seems unable to take care of the family, through no fault of her own. It's a sci-fi fantasy. And it's a story of taking care of each other. At the totally satisfying end I found myself wondering about the chicken and the egg. Thinking I may have to read this one again to see if I can figure it out.
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