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...
Jenna Blum has been writing short stories since she was 16. Several of them have been published. "Those who save us" is her first novel. The book has been on various bestseller lists and has been nominated for several awards.For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germa...
Blum's novel is very compelling, though at times cliche. I would say that the last third of the novel is the most cliche and most predictable. While Trudy is likable, there is something less compelling about her story than about her mother's.Blum does raise and address questions about responsiblit...
This book made me cry...probably one of the most powerful fictional books I have read on Nazi Germany since The Diary of Anne Frank...This book is well-worth the read.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER I finished and I have to tell you that I was really disappointed with this one. I am going to give this book 4 stars for the story and the way that it seemed to focus on many of the German victims of WWII, especially the women and children. I had such high hopes andd all was ...
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