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Beautiful and touching.
I wasn't expecting the short, fragmented sentence structure of this book but it works. The fragments (pieces?) tell snapshots of the confused and painful upbringings of Jakob, a child who survived the killing of his family in the Holocaust, and Ben, a child born of two Holocaust survivors.
Each perspective brings guilt, fear and pain into the lives of Jakob & Ben and threatens to overpower them in their adult lives.
A beautiful book about love and its powers.
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I wasn't expecting the short, fragmented sentence structure of this book but it works. The fragments (pieces?) tell snapshots of the confused and painful upbringings of Jakob, a child who survived the killing of his family in the Holocaust, and Ben, a child born of two Holocaust survivors.
Each perspective brings guilt, fear and pain into the lives of Jakob & Ben and threatens to overpower them in their adult lives.
A beautiful book about love and its powers.
...more
Beautiful, haunting, poetic... and so, so sad. For me the language was, at times, too metaphorical and fanciful to balance fully with the characters and plot development. But an amazing book all the same and one I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone for whom a linear story is not a priority.
There is some startlingly beautiful writing here, and such a wonderful story with perfectly parallel plot lines. A small bit of restraint in the language would have made this an absolutely perfect read.
There is some startlingly beautiful writing here, and such a wonderful story with perfectly parallel plot lines. A small bit of restraint in the language would have made this an absolutely perfect read.
I finally got around to reading this one. I knew parts of it would be very painful, so I had shied away from it for many years.
It was a beautiful read, well worth the wait.
It was a beautiful read, well worth the wait.
Oct 24, 2016
Dianne
marked it as to-read
Dec 05, 2017
Kai Coates
marked it as to-read
Aug 02, 2019
Jama
marked it as to-read
