by Ramona Ausubel
I will be honest. My first thought on reading the synopsis of this book was "that idea is a bit far-fetched." But then I realised that I didn't live in that time, and I don't know what it must have been like to face the possible idea of your people being annihilated. As I read, I found how desperate...
Seemed kind of random and weird at first, but it all came together somehow in the end. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoyed [b:Everything is Illuminated|256566|Everything is Illuminated|Jonathan Safran Foer|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327865538s/256566.jpg|886727]because I c...
I didn't really like this book. The narrative is just plain weird and is hard to understand and just the premise that an entire village just ups and "puts their heads in the sand" and ignores WWII is unbelievable. I read that the author was writing about how the Germans could just ignore what was ...
I'm having such a hard time writing a review for this book because it was both a beautiful book to read and a painful book to read at the same time. It reads more like poetry than prose and has a sort of dreamlike quality to it. The "Us" alluded to in the title is the collective population of a smal...
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