Sending Down the Sparrows R.T. Smith Siddhartha Bose

Siddhartha Bose

A Note on James Kirkup

of touring with George Shearing

with an introduction by Karen Leeder

against the world’s disarray

Sending Down the Sparrows R.T. Smith Siddhartha BoseSending 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