![]() ![]() It was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Childrens Book Award. It is a novel of the Russian Revolution, a fictionalised account of the time the author Arthur Ransome spent in Russia. The novel’s many tragedies feel all but inexorable, and Arturo’s story will linger with readers. Blood Red, Snow White is a historical novel by Marcus Sedgwick published in 2007. Sedgwick interweaves the cruel realities of day-to-day existence in a desert landscape plagued by gang warfare-where people vanish without notice and brutalized corpses appear just as suddenly-with interspersed passages that address NAFTA and other relevant social context, as well as musings that revolve around Santa Muerte, “a folk saint, a rebel angel, a powerful divinity excommunicated from the Orthodox,” to whom Arturo devotes himself. ![]() Arturo reluctantly agrees to put his gambling talents to the test in order to help his old friend, but it’s a dangerous game, and it doesn’t end well. Arturo cobbles together a life in Anapra, “a little less than a shanty town,” where he is visited by childhood friend Faustino, who has gotten mixed up with the deadly local gangs and is in desperate need of money. ![]() policies and the market for narcotics on Mexico and its citizens. Sedgwick ( Blood Red Snow White) transports readers to the border city of Juarez in this grim study of the repercussions of U.S. ![]()
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