E. R. Ramzipoor

Los ventrílocuos
E. R. Ramzipoor
Publicado: 2019 | 502 páginas
Novela Bélico Histórico

Basada en una increíble historia real de valentía y resistencia.



Bruselas, 1943. Helena, una huérfana de doce años, sobrevive viviendo como un chico y vendiendo periódicos de la cabecera más popular del país, Le Soir, ahora convertido en pura propaganda nazi. El mundo de Helena da un vuelco el día que conoce a Marc Aubrion, un periodista resistente que la llevará a una red secreta que publica periódicos clandestinos.



Los nazis dan con la red de Aubrion y les ofrecen una elección imposible: convertir los periódicos de la resistencia en una bomba de propaganda nazi encubierta que conducirá a la opinión pública a ponerse en contra de los aliados, o ser fusilados inmediatamente. Sin ninguna decisión real que tomar, Aubrion tiene una idea brillante: mientras simulan que le siguen la corriente a los nazis publicarán a la vez una edición falsa de Le Soir que caricaturiza tanto a Hitler como a todos los nazis. Se reirán directamente a la cara de sus opresores.



Los ventrílocuos se han puesto de acuerdo para morir por una broma y solo tienen dieciocho días para contarla.… (altro)

I’ve been excited about this book since I found it back in the winter. This book is about a team of mismatch individuals who are given the task to write a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway the people of Belgium. While “pretending” to write the paper, the team actually writes a fake edition of the paper poking fun at the Nazi. I was surprised to find out that this is based on a true story, though the author twists it in her own way. It was a phenomenal book, easy read (once you got into the groove of who the players were). It was remarkable that the paper, from start to finish, only took place in 21 days! Through all the twists and turns and everything going wrong for all the right reasons, this book sheds light on a little known event during WWII. I will highly recommend this book for anyone looking for an amazing story, human interaction and a believe that things will always turnout the right way.… (altro)

*Book received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*

Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network publishing dissident underground newspapers.

Aubrion’s unbridled creativity and linguistic genius attract the attention of August Wolff, a high-ranking Nazi official tasked with swaying public opinion against the Allies. Wolff captures Aubrion and his comrades and gives them an impossible choice: use the newspaper to paint the Allies as monsters, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea: they will pretend to do the Nazis’ bidding, but instead they will publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin—giving power back to the Belgians by daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.

The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.

Told with dazzling scope, taut prose and devastating emotion, The Ventriloquists illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by history—unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.

This was a great concept with poor execution. The book is far longer than necessary, some basic history facts are incorrect (America in WWII), and the chapters are short with strange point of view choices. All of these issues would have been easily solved by a decent editor.… (altro)