I read this book almost a year ago and I think my original review on goodreads best sums it up:
I have no words.
There are so many holocaust books out there but this one is incredibly special. There's something about knowing it's a fictionalised memoir in a way that makes it that much more impactful. It's not taking real situations and throwing made up characters into it. It's taking real people and the real things they experienced and... I'm moved.
I think we get to a point where we're just too exposed to the awfulness of this world and the holocaust is one of those things I think the horror of gets dampened a little. We get so many books and movies and shows about it that we feel far removed but this book took me back to the time I first learned of it and shocked me all over again. I felt the pain Lale felt in some small fraction when he realised what was happening in the crematoriums. I just... Wow.
I have no words.
There are so many holocaust books out there but this one is incredibly special. There's something about knowing it's a fictionalised memoir in a way that makes it that much more impactful. It's not taking real situations and throwing made up characters into it. It's taking real people and the real things they experienced and... I'm moved.
I think we get to a point where we're just too exposed to the awfulness of this world and the holocaust is one of those things I think the horror of gets dampened a little. We get so many books and movies and shows about it that we feel far removed but this book took me back to the time I first learned of it and shocked me all over again. I felt the pain Lale felt in some small fraction when he realised what was happening in the crematoriums. I just... Wow.