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White on Black
He is a Russian with a Spanish name. A child of the foreign exchange students was born in Moscow and diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy. The Soviet officials told his mother that he died, and took him away to the worst place imaginable. Without the use of his hands and feet, he endured through the Soviet orphanage system. He was scheduled to die at the age of 15. However, the boy survived. He escaped. He lives.If you like to read about pink flowers, good fortune, and pleasant people, this book is not for you. This story is about pain, sorrow, and horror of near death. This book is also an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. What does not kill you will make you stronger. This book can make you stronger. That is if you have enough courage to read it from the beginning to the end.
White on Black
As a child in an orphanage in the Soviet Union, Ruben Gallego dreamed of becoming a kamikaze. He knew he could never be a pilot, because cerebral palsy disabled his hands and feet, but he thought he might become a guided torpedo filled with explosives. I dreamed of stealing up to an enemy aircraft carrier very quietly and pressing the red button. Unable to walk, hidden away, Gallego dreamed of a useful death, because the only fate that seemed likely for him was a useless one. Instead, Gallego has triumphed over his disability and circumstances to write White on Black, a novelized memoir that is itself a kind of torpedo against mistreatment of the handicapped. In addition to his cerebral pals...
They Called Us "Lucky"
From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky ...
Eternal Guest
"Everyone loves me, but no one wants me on his turf," says Gallego, who is not Jewish. "And the Jews say, 'You're here - welcome, '" he says. Is it possible for a person who has experienced pain and humiliation, who has undergone severe and cruel ordeals, to find a place on earth that will finally bring him peace and tranquility?The Eternal Guest is Ruben's third book. After 13 years of silence, the author decides to write about the most important things: family, home, and how difficult it is to find your place in this world
Chess
In this life, you are either a player or a chess piece. To be a player, you need to take responsibility for your decisions. Will you help another one even if you are helpless yourself? Will you betray your friend to save his life? Once you enter the game, you must keep playing it. It doesn't matter if you are too young, or cannot walk, or if you do not know the rules. Do not look at the board. Keep playing.The "Chess" is the second book of Rubén David González Gallego. It was first published in Russian under the title "I am sitting on the shore." In 2019 this book won the Best European Book (Fiction) at the first-ever European Chess Award Ceremony.
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Michael and Ruben are paralyzed. Michael has myopathy and Ruben has cerebral palsy. Both are orphans. Soviet Union is what's outside their window. Neither one can lift a shovel or a house painter's brush. The state machine knows what to do with this ballast: adjust the clock on their lifespans and send them straight from orphanage to the nursing home - to die. Ruben and Michael are roommates. Ruben, being "healthier", does all the physical work while Michael is all about strategizing and planning ahead. It is difficult, almost impossible, but they have no choice. How does one live and what does one think when there is no future? What is there to hold onto in this world that is killing you sl...
Blanko Sur Nigro (Biografia Romano En Esperanto)
Ruben Gallego ricevis la rusan Booker-premion en 2003 por la verko Blanko sur nigro. La membiografia romano estas verkita ruse, spite la hispanan nomon de la au'toro. Gallego estas nepo de iama estro de la Komunisma partio en Hispanio. Li estas denaske grave handikapita, sidas en rulseĝo kaj povas uzi nur kelkajn fingrojn. Lia patrino loĝis en Moskvo en 1968, kiam li naskiĝis. Al ŝi oni anoncis, ke li mortis baldaŭ post la naskiĝo. Efektive li ne mortis, sed estis kaŝita en diversaj infanejoj, kiuj iĝis la scenejo de "Blanko sur nigro". Post la disfalo de Sovetio Ruben Gallego ekhavis kontakton kun sia familio, ekloĝis en Hispanio kaj iĝis hispana civitano. Nun li loĝas en Usono. ...
The Falconer
A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick “A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth “[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well.” —Chloe Malle, The New York Times Book Review In this “frank, bittersweet coming-of-age story that crackles with raw adolescent energy, fresh-cut prose, and a kinetic sense of place” (Entertainment Weekly), a teenaged tomboy explores love, growing up, and New York City in the early 1990s. New York, 1993. Street-smart seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler is ...
Fashionopolis
'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH. Fashionopolis is the definitive book on the cost of fast fashion, and a blueprint for how we get to a more sustainable future. Fashion has blighted our planet. Today, one out of six people on earth work in fashion, churning out 100 billion garments a year. Yet 98 percent of them do not earn a living wage, and 2.1 billion tonnes of clothing is thrown away annually. The clothing industry's exploitation of fellow humans and the environment has reached epic levels. What should we do? Bestselling author and veteran journalist Dana Thomas has travelled the globe to find the answers. In...
