The Berlin Boxing Club
Robert Sharenow,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 04-26-2011
Robert Sharenow,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers on 04-26-2011
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061579684 (0061579688)
Publish date: April 26th 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 399
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
World War II,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Holocaust,
Germany
This is a hard book for me to assess. On one hand, it tells what feels like a very important story. On the other, I felt that the writing style was not my favorite–the sentence level writing was fairly weak, IMO. On the third hand, I suspect it would be possible to sell this to reluctant readers, or...
4.5 stars
La stella nel pugno è un romanzo di formazione ambientato nella Germania degli anni ‘30, in cui ci vengono narrate le vicissitudini di un giovane ragazzino ebreo la cui vita viene stravolta dal regime.Inizialmente la vita di Karl è identica a quella di tutti i bambini tedeschi, e prosegue tranquilla...
Great depcition of rising anti-Semitism in 1930's Germany. The boxing story and Max Schmeling connection proved to be much more interesting than I anticipated.