Angeliki Darlasi - Rights Guide

11 With an amazing metaphor that I don’t often come across, when we have to talk about diversity and tolerance, the author equates the great statues, though dismembered/headless/ earless, with the people who are all different from each other. Just as we have learned (or try) to admire a statue for its beauty and grace, its posture or its “movement”, even though it may not be intact, so we should admire people. Odysseas Mouzilis, “Piperi kai spasmenes grammes” When the statues went away The statues of the museum come alive at night. Angelina knows this because they are her best friends: with her having one and a half hand, she looks just like them. Her only real, flesh-and-blood friend is Tiko who, despite being short sighted, can estimate the beauty of the statues. It is October 1940, when World War II starts for Greece. And in the museum starts a grand, secret operation to hide the ancient statues under the floors. The two children will help as much as they can despite their disabilities, trying to protect the statues in their neighborhood. Angeliki Darlasi offers a unique anti-war story about identity, friendship, resistance and kindness, which unfolds revealing a little-known part of history – the heroic effort to hide and secure the statues of the Greek National Archeological Museum during World War II. 224 pages | 14x20,5cm | Paperback FOR AGES 12 AND UP ENGLISH TEXT AVAILABLE