White on Black (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of White on Black Friday, August 7 2009.

• This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy’s triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity.    And yet there is no self-pity here, no bitterness, only an unfailing regard for the truth. Gallego’s story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child’s growing fascination with books and the worlds he finds in them.

Shelfari edited the contributors of White on Black Wednesday, July 29 2009.

• Added a contributor: Marian Schwartz: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Ruben David Gonsales Gal?ego: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of White on Black Thursday, July 16 2009.

• I'm a hero.