● Audiobook
● Stewart Place Book Club selection, January 2015
● US author
● Review: A very nice book. Standard metaphors, (i.e. the blind seeing the most), are used to find the light in the darkness of WWII and its well known atrocities. Stolen youths, orphaned children, love despite all odds, and the survival instinct are standard themes, written about with an elegant prose. However, I think that the converging story line structure was not well implemented and became confusing along the way, probably because there was jumping not only between characters, but also back and forth in time. I must admit to being bored and that it bogged down for quite a while in the middle. So overall, very nice is the best I can muster for this very popular novel. This one will probably do better as a film than as a novel.
● Stewart Place Book Club selection, January 2015
● US author
● Review: A very nice book. Standard metaphors, (i.e. the blind seeing the most), are used to find the light in the darkness of WWII and its well known atrocities. Stolen youths, orphaned children, love despite all odds, and the survival instinct are standard themes, written about with an elegant prose. However, I think that the converging story line structure was not well implemented and became confusing along the way, probably because there was jumping not only between characters, but also back and forth in time. I must admit to being bored and that it bogged down for quite a while in the middle. So overall, very nice is the best I can muster for this very popular novel. This one will probably do better as a film than as a novel.
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