The Stone World

Six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist...And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrâes who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe...But the emigrâes long for home...slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down--