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    <body><![CDATA[A personal story of a boy growing up in Moscow with cerebal palsy. He spends his childhood in orphanages, hospitals and homes for the elderly after being hidden away in Soviet state insitutions by his materal grandfather. A touching read that proves people can still triumph despite adversity.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What made me pick up this book was the fact that the author, because he was born with cerebral palsy, types this memoir with the index finger of his left hand.  My only complaint is that the story can be confusing because it jumps around from chapter to chapter and never quite gives the complete sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43004699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And yet there is no self-pity here, no bitterness, only an unfailing regard for the truth. Gallego&#8217;s story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child&#8217;s growing fascination with books and the worlds he finds in them. &lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly autobiographical book by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/359449.Ruben_Gonzalez_Gallego" title="Ruben Gonzalez Gallego">Ruben Gonzalez Gallego</a>. He tells a story of a disabled boy who spends his boyhood in Russian orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes. It shows how those institutions were  causing a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity. But there is no bitterness -...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43783912">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And yet there is no self-pity here, no bitterness, only an unfailing regard for the truth. Gallego&#8217;s story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child&#8217;s growing fascination with books and the worlds he finds in them. &lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ruben Gallego has cerebral palsy and grew up in Soviet-run institutions.  He typed his beautifully written memoir using one finger.  Broken into shorter pieces, <em>White on Black</em> shows how magic can still exist in a child’s life even in the direst of circumstances.<br/><br/>Gallego evokes sympathy ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12161031">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this book 4.5 stars. It was better than most of the books I gave 4 stars to, but not quite a 5 star book, which I reserve for books that change my life. This is a wonderfully sweet memoir and gives those of us that whine when we live such privileged lives a kick in the pants. It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27490920">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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