E. R. Ramzipoor

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Iowa

A Novel

Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old orphan Helene survives by selling newspapers on the street, until one day she unexpectedly befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. When Aubrion's team is caught by the Nazis, they are given a terrible choice: use the voice of the resistance to create a Nazi propaganda bomb, or be killed. The rebels come up with a plan--while pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will publish a bomb of their own that pokes fun at the Reich. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail, E.R. Ramzipoor's dazzling debut novel is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.

The Ventriloquists

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In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network publishing dissident underground newspapers. Aubrion's unbridled creativity and linguistic genius attract the attention of August Wolff, a high-ranking Nazi official tasked with swaying public opinion against the Allies. Wolff captures Aubrion and his comrades and gives them an impossible choice: use the newspaper to paint the Allies as monsters, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea: they will pretend to do the Nazis' bidding, but instead they will publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin--giving power back to the Belgians by daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Told with dazzling scope, taut prose and devastating emotion, The Ventriloquists illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by history--unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.

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