The Black brothers
a novel in pictures
About this book
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 their secret society, the Black Brothers.
Subjects
- children's fiction
- chimney sweeps
- friendship
- history
- homeless persons, fiction
- italy, history, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- switzerland, fiction
- teenage boys