The Zookeeper's Wife is a micro chasm book. This means that it deals with a small event and only that small event. It does help when reading this book if you have a good, working knowledge of Europe in WWII, in particular the Warsaw Uprising. Ackerman's greatest flaw in the book is that there is ...
This book is so much more than just what the title and description let on. It's a foray into the deepest fears, inhibitions and risks felt by Jews and their rescuers as well as the beliefs and systems of thinking of the Nazis attempting to overtake Warsaw's heart and soul in 1940's Poland. The novel...
A beautifully written book about a woman and her family and their animals trying to survive in war-torn Warsaw, Poland during WWII. The descriptions of the animals and the characters are clever and entertaining. This book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in history or animals.
The primary source for this book is the diary of Antonina Zabinski (the zoo keeper's wife). Her detailed descriptions of how she and her young son cared for a variety of animals (many as in-house pets) provides some relief from the otherwise depressing story of the Holocaust that was taking place a...
A zookeeper and his wife hide Polish Jews in their zoo during the Nazi occupation. I liked the information presented about Poland during WWII. This is a part of world history that I knew little about. The book seemed to jump around, from the Jewish people to zoo animals.
Not a fast-paced adventure story, but a series of vignettes -a good book to savor slowly. This book lent itself very well to reading at work on short breaks, as I could stop and start again at any point. The plight of Poland during WWII is often glossed over, I think. The Resistance movement in Wars...
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