Those Who Save Us
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841957012 (1841957011)
Publish date: March 30th 2006
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
War,
Jewish,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Germany
I wonder why the writer, editor, and publisher chose not to put the dialogue in quotation marks? I found it confusing (and annoying). Still, the mix of past and present worked except where the story felt contrived. The author did not convince me that Anna was real. Her motivations and loyalties were...
I have always had a strange obsession with the Holocaust. A fascination that is yet to be satiated. This story of Anna and Trudie has been a generous and satisfying portion for that hunger. This story told in past and present by mother and daughter of their experience in wartime Germany and present ...
No way was this an enjoyable book! It was excruciatingly difficult....but the end was beautiful, and that saved the book for me. Before choosing this book I read through reviews. One friend says in her review that the main character, Anna, a gentile German, was both naïve and uninformed when the st...
I could hardly bear to put this book down..I really enjoyed it, although as another reviewer here said, perhaps 'enjoyed' isn't quite the right word to use about such a dark subject as the Holocaust.This book looks at the war through the eyes of a German woman,Anna.We begin in her later years as she...
I could hardly bear to put this book down..I really enjoyed it, although as another reviewer here said, perhaps 'enjoyed' isn't quite the right word to use about such a dark subject as the Holocaust.This book looks at the war through the eyes of a German woman,Anna.We begin in her later years as she...
12 years ago
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