by Lisa Goldstein
I'm a bit ashamed because it took me a year to read it after I got a copy from Netgalley even though it is such a short story. Kicsi grows up in a small Jewish village in central Europe, and the story starts as something between a fable and mythology, interweaving Jewish folklore and magic in the ...
This is a fable, not a novel. The characters aren't people,but they are more than types. It is actually a fable about loss and blame. It's something you puzzle over more than enjoy, though.
But it doesn't take courage to die. That's easy. It takes courage to live. I had never heard of this book before I saw it on NetGalley. It won the National Book Award and Open Road Media is now publishing it in ebook format. I love reading books that take place in WWII and I can't really remember r...
The book follows Kisci, a young Jewish girl, from a small Hungarian village in the 1930s. When a red-haired stranger called Vörös, who can see to the future, comes to the village and tells about horrors to come, the village rabbi refuses to listen and insists that nothing will happen. The two men cl...
(I got a copy courtesy of OpenRoad Media through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)An interesting short story, though I must admit it wasn't exactly what I expected, and I ended up not liking it as much as I hoped.On the one hand, I could easily feel the magic permeating the atmosphere, t...
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