A haunting, poignant tale of the Holocaust and its aftermath in the lives of generations as perceived by survivors and their descendants as well as the people around them. The topic itself and the way Michaels handles it deserve five stars. However, the entanglement of people's life stories, intertw...
I'm hovering between four and five for this. A million stars for the sections narrated by Jakob, but I was less fond of the latter two or three narrated by Ben. Still, reading some reviews, I was expecting something more obfuscating than what I got. This hit my sweet spot of lyrical but intelligi...
I'm hovering between four and five for this. A million stars for the sections narrated by Jakob, but I was less fond of the latter two or three narrated by Ben. Still, reading some reviews, I was expecting something more obfuscating than what I got. This hit my sweet spot of lyrical but intelligi...
I picked this book up at a used book sale some time ago without really knowing anything about it other than what the liner notes indicated. Once I owned it, I'd hear it referred to by people as a sort of reference point for other writing, but had so many books on my "to read list" it hadn't quite ma...
I picked this book up at a used book sale some time ago without really knowing anything about it other than what the liner notes indicated. Once I owned it, I'd hear it referred to by people as a sort of reference point for other writing, but had so many books on my "to read list" it hadn't quite ma...
Halfway through. Remarkable. I haven't read anything since Donna Tartt where I was so convinced that the author knew her characters like they had -been- the characters. To know how to have the characters think some of these thoughts in the narrative sequence they appear in is mind-boggling.
The most beautifully written book I've read in a very long time. And describing such horror - which makes the language used all the more powerful. It really is a very long prose poem, I think. It functions as a poem, in terms of the vignettes and how they resonate with each other. So many layers...
Michaels has engrossing prose. She has wonderful descriptions. I got lost in them. In the problem is that the book doesn't really seem to go anywhere. It's almost as if you are waiting for it to really get started but it doesn't. As I am writing this, I think that is the point of the book (or o...
Finely crafted poetic language does not a novel make, even when the central character is a Holocaust survival. Elie Wiesel's Gates of the Forest is a far better novel.
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