White Oleander. A book for reading White Oleander

Young and talented Astrid lives in the shadow of his mother-poetry, an impregnable secular lioness, the Snow Queen Bomond. When the suddenly flashed passion pushes the mother to the crime, the girl is thrown to the mercy of fate. Getting from one foster family to another, growing Astrid becomes not only an involuntary spectator, but also the actress of the theater of difficult relationships of a man and a woman. The girl tries on various roles until one day a vague children"s memory makes her think about who she really is. To find out the past, Astrid is ready to make a deal with his own conscience. Step by step, she approaches the unraveling of her family secrets. The book presents an abbreviated and adapted text of the Pre-Intermediate level