The Black brothers
a novel in pictures
Homeless persons, fiction
Switzerland, fiction
Teenage boys
Friendship
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
History
In the middle of the 19th century, poor farmers from Ticino sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as "living broomsticks" in the chimneys of Milan. Thirteen-year-old Giorgio's father had no choice but to sell his son; now Giorgio survives with the help of his friend Alfredo and…
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