This has been a book that I have been meaning to read for a while now but have not had the chance to. Until now.
A very chilling at times story about friendship, heartbreak and resilience in a time of sheer horror and literal life or death. The story unfolds in a number of settings including the concentration camp which evokes a sense of doom, yet the characters still strive to survive like many of the Jews who suffered under the hands of the nazi regime and the horror of the holocaust.
The death march chapters had me nearly in tears with the evilness and depravity of the holocaust and at times is unimaginable to think of having been real even though we know they were.
I do feel this book is in a saturated market of recent war fiction but does well in the way it is written and the feelings it evokes to the reader. The characters are inspiring in their will to survive and perseverance.
A very chilling at times story about friendship, heartbreak and resilience in a time of sheer horror and literal life or death. The story unfolds in a number of settings including the concentration camp which evokes a sense of doom, yet the characters still strive to survive like many of the Jews who suffered under the hands of the nazi regime and the horror of the holocaust.
The death march chapters had me nearly in tears with the evilness and depravity of the holocaust and at times is unimaginable to think of having been real even though we know they were.
I do feel this book is in a saturated market of recent war fiction but does well in the way it is written and the feelings it evokes to the reader. The characters are inspiring in their will to survive and perseverance.