{"title":"E R Ramzipoor","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ventriloquists-book-e-r-ramzipoor-9780778310167","title":"The Ventriloquists","description":"\"[A] remarkable saga.... Engrossing.\" --Booklist, starred review\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin--daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail, E.R. Ramzipoor's dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569789772049,"sku":"GOR013524876","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49989764055313,"sku":"CIN0778310167A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50278283182353,"sku":"CIN0778310167G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50630609862929,"sku":"CIN0778310167VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007031378193,"sku":"NIN9780778310167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0778310167.jpg?v=1750914189"},{"product_id":"ventriloquists-book-e-r-ramzipoor-9780778308157","title":"The Ventriloquists","description":"\"[A] remarkable saga.... Engrossing.\" --Booklist, starred review\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin--daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail, E.R. Ramzipoor's dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49881842024721,"sku":"CIN0778308154G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49967639855377,"sku":"GOR013825124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762919837969,"sku":"CIN0778308154VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0778308154.jpg?v=1751170127"},{"product_id":"los-ventrilocuos-the-ventriloquists-book-e-r-ramzipoor-9788491396178","title":"Los Ventrílocuos (the Ventriloquists)","description":"Bruselas, 1943. Helena, una hu rfana de doce a os, sobrevive viviendo como un chico y vendiendo peri dicos de la cabecera m s popular del pa s, Le Soir, ahora convertido en pura propaganda nazi. El mundo de Helena da un vuelco el d a que conoce a Marc Aubrion, un periodista resistente que la llevar  a una red secreta que publica peri dicos clandestinos. Los nazis dan con la red de Aubrion y les ofrecen una elecci n imposible: convertir los peri dicos de la resis-tencia en una bomba de propaganda nazi encubierta que conducir  a la opini n p blica a ponerse en contra de los aliados, o ser fusilados inmediatamente. Sin ninguna decisi n real que tomar, Aubrion tiene una idea brillante: mientras simulan que le siguen la corriente a los nazis publicar n a la vez una edici n falsa de Le Soir que caricaturiza tanto a Hitler como a todos los nazis. Se reir n directamente a la cara de sus opresores. Los ventr locuos se han puesto de acuerdo para morir por una broma y solo tienen dieciocho d as para contarla.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53565474963729,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53565475062033,"sku":"NIN9788491396178","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788491396178.jpg?v=1778990408"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-e-r-ramzipoor.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}