WARNING: Review contains spoilers. If you are unfamiliar with Magda Goebbels’ story and are sensitive to spoilers I recommend that you read the book, not the review! Five words from the blurb: Goebbells. Hitler, relationship, mother, foreboding A few years ago I read The History of History by Ida Hattemer-Higgins, a fantastic, albeit slightly weird, book [...]
Posts Tagged ‘WWII’
Ignorance by Michèle Roberts
Longlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction Five words from the blurb: village, Jew, war, society, truth I have to be honest. When I saw this book on the WPF longlist I groaned. Did the world really need another book about hiding Jewish people during WWII? The subject has been covered so many times, [...]
Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green Winner of the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Five words from the blurb: Holocaust, Jewish, boy, hides, brothel Blooms of Darkness is set during WWII and follows an eleven-year-old Jewish boy as he is forced to leave his family and hide from the Nazis in a brothel. Blooms [...]
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Translated from the French by Sam Taylor Five words from the blurb: mission, assassinate, Nazi, novelist, truth There has been a lot of hype surrounding this book, but it is all justified. HHhH breaks the mould, creating a new genre that will change the way you look at non-fiction and lead you to question the accuracy [...]
The Death of the Adversary – Hans Keilson
Translated from the German by Ivo Jarosy Five words from the blurb: masterpiece, dictator, Germany, Jewish, tyranny Hans Keilson wrote this book whilst hiding from the Nazis during WWII. The narrator is a Jewish boy who witnesses a dictator rising to power. We see the way his life is changed by the increasing influence of this evil [...]
Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
Short listed for 2011 Booker Prize Five words from the blurb: Berlin, black, betrayal, cabaret, secrets Half Blood Blues begins in 1940s Paris and follows the members of a jazz band who have fled to the city to escape the Nazi regime. The star of the band is Hiero, a trumpet player of outstanding talent. [...]
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