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“Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York Times The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee...

It all started with a curse. When Woong's hunger drives him to steal the fancy meal set out by his superstitious mother, he invokes a shaman's wrath. Soon afterwards, a flood ravages his home, ripping him from his parents and hurtling him into street life during the catastrophic North Korean famine of the 1990s. Traveling from place to place in order to survive, Woong meets a grandmother whose faith in the Dear Leader enables her to wait patiently for the arrival of food aid, an uncle whose plot to take over a grain silo could land the whole family in prison camp, and a mysterious character who may or may not have an angelic blessing.

It's 30,000 BC. Hiding in a giant mimosa tree, Maru watches her father meet with the leader of a treacherous Andean tribe. Her father, furious that she's followed him, tells her that if he is killed - something he fully expects - she must warn their people to flee. The people are prepared, but Maru, at age seven, is not. Her father places heavy responsibility on her because she followed him.

Questa poesia, tratta dall'omonimo libro, presenta tutte le tematiche su cui si incentra l'opera di Gozzano: la pretesa ingenuità, l'ironia, e la parodia letteraria, l'abile trattamento dell'artificio poetico. Ha una struttura circolare, che é sofisticata nella ricerca della semplicità.All’eclettica rappresentazione della scena, sostenuta dal tema ritmico della filastrocca, concorrono i monologhi interiori del poeta, e i due atti delle bambine: il giro a tondo e la traumatica scena della farfalla.