[The Red Ribbon]
Year:
2017
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Bonnier
Year of publication:
2017
Pages:
210
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Novel set in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, in 1944. The author imagines that four women are imprisoned there: Carla, Mina, Rose and the youngest, 14 years old, called Ella, who is the storyteller. As they are professional seamstresses, they have managed to escape from the gas chambers by making themselves indispensable to the Nazi officers' wives. Thus, a sewing workshop is born that keeps a privileged group of prisoners alive, although this does not exempt them from suffering the cold, hunger and punishments that affect all prisoners. This historical fiction is made as an appropriate reading for young audiences.
Author: Fernando Jadraque Sánchez, Spain
Update on: Dec 2021