Ramzipoor has great fun with her cast of oddball characters, but she never loses sight of the fact that in war truth is one of the first casualties. Based on a true wartime incident, the novel reminds us that the Nazis were deathly afraid of the power of the written word. Though fellow underground writers aid Aubrion in his efforts, they have only eighteen days to execute their plan. When a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, is tasked by a Nazi official to use resistance newspapers to spread disinformation about the Allies, he decides that he will turn the tables by publishing a fake edition of Le Soir, the famed Belgian newspaper, that will poke fun at the Nazis. One of the most important battles concerned the Germans’ attempt, in spite of their campaign of pillage and genocide, to sway public opinion against the Allies in many of the territories they had conquered. Told with dazzling scope, taut prose and devastating emotion, The Ventriloquists illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by history - unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.World War II was fought on many fronts. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea: they will pretend to do the Nazis' bidding, but instead they will publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin - giving power back to the Belgians by daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. Wolff captures Aubrion and his comrades and gives them an impossible choice: use the newspaper to paint the Allies as monsters, or be killed.
Helene's entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network publishing dissident underground newspapers.Īubrion's unbridled creativity and linguistic genius attract the attention of August Wolff, a high-ranking Nazi official tasked with swaying public opinion against the Allies. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.īrussels, 1943.
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