Oh man. This book. I listened to the audiobook version which was brilliant!
I’m not one for historical books usually, but I think maybe as I’m getting older I’m getting more interested in historical fiction and non fiction.
At first I was surprised by the way it’s written, in that I didn’t feel a lot of emotion from the telling of Lale’s experiences, but after a while I realised that with time and retrospect you would probably have a morbid matter of fact ness about the events.
This is a book about horrific events that we all know about, but it’s in the smaller details that you get a feel for how it was.
This is also a book about optimism, love, hope and friendship.
There’s not much I can say about this book - short of telling you Lale’s story - apart from that it made you feel ashamed of human kind at times and the behaviours some people were and are capable of.
It will also make you want to be a better person, be more optimistic and personally it’s made me want to learn so much more about the experiences of those during WWII.
I’m going to ramble (even more) if I carry on! Basically I loved this and I felt like I learnt a lot.