A Boy in Winter: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073XT7YV3 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 207 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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sb-lynn said Highly recommended, for one storyline in particular.. Brief summary and review, no spoilers.This will be a very brief review because of my concern for spoilers; in fact one of the things that keeps you so nervous and biting your nails while reading this book comes from the anxiety of wondering what will happen next.Therefore, let me just say that this story takes place in 19Highly recommended, for one storyline in particular. sb-lynn Brief summary and review, no spoilers.This will be a very brief review because of my concern for spoilers; in fact one of the things that keeps you so nervous and biting your nails while reading this book comes from the anxiety of wondering what will happen next.Therefore, let me just say that this story takes place in 1941 in a small village. 1 in a small village. Laurence R. Bachmann said A well-told but unmoving tale. There is a trove of literature that catalogs the horror and suffering we visit upon each other in times of war. “The Sympathizer,” “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” and “The Narrow Road to the Far North” are three recent works that manage to sear our souls with the reality of war. They also detect, howev. A Holocaust-themed novel with nothing new to add The sheer barbarity and unthinkable horror of the Holocaust begs a question: how should literary writers, most of whom were not alive in those times, portray such a heinous event in literature? Some use their art to transcend the Holocaust and prove that in the arc of history, art will always trump evil; among these works are White Hotel, Mis
Here to avoid a war he considers criminal, German engineer Otto Pohl is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind the lines, and no one but himself to turn to. And in the midst of it all is Yankel, a boy determined to survive this. As their stories mesh, each of Rachel Seiffert's characters comes to know the compromises demanded by survival, the oppressive power of fear, and the possibility of courage in the face of terror. But to do so, he must throw in his lot with strangers. Rich with a rare compassion an