Kivenkantajat
by:
Anne Michaels (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789510359976 (9510359971)
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: WSOY
Pages no: 310
Edition language: Finnish
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
World War II,
Canada,
Holocaust,
Canadian Literature
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...
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