Ewen has a secret that he has kept from everyone and nobody knows about it. He goes out at night in the streets of Paris, which would worry any parent of a young boy. But Ewen doesn't live at home with his mother and father. He lives in a hospital because he has cancer. And his cancer doesn't keep him from going out on adventures. When a boy named Benjamin is hospitalized for the same reason in the same hospital, Ewen and Benjamin become friends. After a time, Ewen decides he can trust Benjamin and reveals his secret to him. Unbeknownst to everybody, they join forces to escape at night and fulfill exciting adventures outside the hospital. Only Alcibiades, a mean and terrible man who doesn't want to share his territory, is aware of their nocturnal escapades. And Alcibiades has something to say about it!
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 4 mm
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978-1-312-52376-0 (9781312523760)
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Ewen was living in Zambia when he broke his leg and was diagnosed with cancer or osteosarcoma. After going back and forth to a hospital in South Africa, he went to France to start chemotherapy. When this book was originally published, Ewen was ten years old. He lived in Bethesda, Maryland with his parents and three siblings. He loved planes and enjoyed playing with his flight simulator. In the future, he wanted to be an aerospace engineer. After a long battle with cancer, Ewen died on 22 November 2014 in Marseilles, France and he was buried on Belle-Île-en-Mer (an island in the Brittany region of France).
Helene Elisabeth is Ewen's mom. In a previous life she was a lawyer. She enjoys reading, running, swimming, and biking with her friends. She likes to write when she has some spare time (Journal d'une Jeune Fille Irlandaise, Pétra 2008; Mwendabaï -with the students of the French School of Lusaka, Zambia- Pétra 2011 and Les Evadés de Curie - with Ewen- Pétra 2012).
