Sending Down the Sparrows Stephen Brown edited by Jessie Lendennie

edited by Jessie Lendennie

anthologist and scholar

Daniel Weissbort (with Ted Hughes) set up Modern Poetry in Translation

intermittently from 1941 to 2000

Sending Down the Sparrows Stephen Brown edited by Jessie LendennieSending Down the Sparrows, a work of historical fiction, bears witness to the systematic persecution and extermination of the handicapped by Nazi Germany through the character of Viktor, a young man who is a reluctant member of the Hitler Youth. Viktor has a secret; a mentally handicapped sister who is the ward of a state institution. Viktor soon finds himself caught between the Nazi ideologies of racial and genetic purity and the love of a sister for