Children of the Sun

"A damning indictment ... Mr. West has written with deep feeling." - Catholic Times. There was a child whom I used to visit in the House of the Urchins. His name is Antonino. He was eight years old, but his body was so small and his face so pinched and pale that you would have taken him for five or six. When I came into the small dusty courtyard where he played with the other boys, he would leave the game immediately and run to me, arms outstretched, calling my name ... Then I knew that I must write this book, to purge myself of the nightmare. I must make my voice the voice of the children, the hungry, the homeless, the dispossessed, the damned innocents of Naples.