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Here are children, some as young as 10-years-old, who take on the German Army, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to defeat their advancing enemy and save their city, or die trying. In its awesome scope and pure listening excitement, Street Boys stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all and a singular addition to the novels of World War II.
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The story is fast paced and Lorenzo Carcaterra's language makes the war torn city of Naples come alive inside the reader's mind. Most characters in the book seem very real. They all have their faults and fears, but still manage a heroic feat.
The reason I'm giving it 4 stars rather than 5 is the language issue. In Mr Carcaterra's world all these young street kids in 1940's Naples all of a sudden speak fluent English and are also able to understand what German soldiers are saying to each other. The German soldiers speak broken Italian, but all seem to speak English. This is just taking fiction a bit too far. It wouldn't have done the story any harm to have the characters of various nationalities have problems understanding each other.
Finally, if you have any knowledge of Italian you need to temporarily forget it when you read this book. I wish the editors had taken time to have the Italian language bits (a few sentences here and there) corrected. Even allowing for the Neapolitan dialect being different from Italian, it's painful to read if you speak Italian and it wouldn't have taken long to have it corrected. It almost made me rate the book as a 3, but then I realised that most people who read it won't notice the difference.
A MUST READ. This was the second Carceterra book ive read and i wasn't disapointed. Carceterra uses a structure to the book wich aborbs you and makes it very difficult to put down. the book also bleeds emotion and is not for the faint hearted.
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