European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Books life amid racism drugs and crime by Jim Urban the associated press life in the ghetto by Anika Thomas landmark editions inc. Thomas has written an autobiography about the ghetto a about crack houses crime and boarded up buildings about racism and despair. She has written a children a Book that makes grown men cry. Anika is 13 years old. And the world she writes about is the world she sees through the windows of her family a Home in Pittsburgh. A i sometimes wish i could be like Dorothy in the wizard Foz. I wish a Tornado would grab  and me up and blow us far away to another land a she writes. A but if that Tornado never comes to take us away. Then i will do it  life in the ghetto was one of three winners selected from More than 7,000 submissions to the nationwide written and illustrated by. Contest sponsored by landmark editions inc. Landmark editions has published the 29-Page, hardback Book. A first printing of 7,500 copies has sold out and a second printing is underway. Anika gets a 5 percent Royalty on All Book sales along with a $5,000 scholarship. Anikan a Book May be for children but it is a far cry from or. Seuss. She tells of children who taunt and beat her because her skin Isnit As dark As theirs even though she herself is Black. She describes How drug abusers times arrows Aims at a backward target by Michiko Kakutani the new York times times Arrow by Martin Amis Harmony books. The idea behind amiss latest novel is this the life Story of a former nazi doctor named Tod t. Friendly is told in a reverse chronology beginning with his incognito existence in an american suburb in the present and moving Back to the Days when he was a doctor in the medical Section of Auschwitz. The Story is narrated by Todd so soul a a curiously naive consciousness that seems powerless to affect Todd a behaviour or understand the implications of his actions. This gimmick of an inverted time scheme has been used before. Harold Pinter used it to chronicle a love trouble in Western China by Charles Solomon special to the . Times the chinese Western translated by Zhu Hong Ballantine. The eight stories in this collection of contemporary chinese fiction Are set in the sparsely populated Western and Northwestern provinces. Although the government in Beijing seems far from this arid Region of subsistence agriculture the self serving abuses of bureaucrats and thirteen year old Anika Thomas and her work. Leave used syringes on the Street outside the Home she shares with her widowed Mother in Pittsburgh a rough Hill District neighbourhood. And she tells of 11 prostitutes who share the apartment below when they weren to walking the Street in the front of the building. She has illustrated her Book with her own drawings a drunks portraits of her relatives even a depiction of that make believe Tornado. A a it a just gripping Quot an american version of the diary of Anne Frank said David Melton creative coordinator for landmark editions inc. A the first time i read the Book i had tears rolling Down my Cheeks. I flipped Back to the beginning and started Reading again. It was one of the most touching documents written by a child that in be Ever  1 2 3 4 5 a 7 8 9 10 life in the ghetto is available by mall from landmark editions inc., 1402 Kansas ave., Kansas City mo., 64127. Enclose $12.95 and $3 for shipping and handling. Triangle in betrayal and Stephen Sondheim and George Furth working from an old George s. Kaufman and Moss Hart play used it to chronicle the show business careers of three longtime friends in merrily we Roll along. But whereas those stories moved from the disillusionment of time present Back to the idealism and hopefulness of time past amiss Story moves from phony innocence to a past of unrelieved horror. The emotional effect of the Story is thus subverted instead of seeing How Youthful expectations were betrayed we simply see How one Many a sins were whitewashed and concealed. Much of the narrative of times Arrow feels incongruously comic in tone. Like a movie run backward Todd a life is presented in fast rewind giving Amis lots of opportunities to indulge in his penchant for sexual and scatological humor. Tod finds love letters in the fireplace or trash fights with women before going to bed with them and eats and defecate in reverse. He makes love backward and eats and drinks backward too. Every Day that passes leaves Tod feeling younger and healthier. His body grows firmer and stronger progressively shedding infirmities and ills. Party officials Are taken As Givens. In Jia pin Gao show much can a Man Bear a woman who has been wrongfully jailed on political grounds declares a but from the commune level right up to the District All the people who conducted secret trials and torture Are  All of the stories focus on characters who manage to defy or elude these Petty officials. The Brash narrator of Zhu Xiaoping a chronicle of Mulberry tree Village slowly discovers How a wily peasant Leader aids his people by outwitting government agents. 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