![]() ![]() Zazoo's voice is honest and distinct as she tells her story the secondary characters develop with real three-dimensional complexity as well. ![]() "A slow and almost dreamlike exploration of the myriad ways that the past-especially a cataclysmic past-informs the present.The slow revelation of the many intertwined personal histories is truly elegant, and the several love stories that emerge are almost painfully romantic. Then one misty October morning, a young man on a bicycle rides into Zazoo's small village and asks a question from which many stories begin to unfold. She has lived with her adoptive Grand-Pierre in France in an old stone mill between the river and the canal since she was two, sharing poetry, adventures, and the predictable rhythms of the seasons. "Zazoo is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She also has a little romance with a French boy named Marius. It was fun listening to this story of how a little adopted Vietnamese girl is adopted by a single American man and, as he ages, brings affection to him and to his neighborhood pharmicist, Uncle Felix Kline. ![]() There's interesting dialogue with other characters as well. The story is told in the voice of the main character, a young Vietnamese girl, named Zazoo. I listened to this audio book in my browser via my public library. ![]() Published June 7th 2004 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published October 15th 2001). (Audio version loaned from public library.) Added and began listening on June 21, 2018. ![]()
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