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Soazig Aaron
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Publisher | Harvill Secker | ||
ISBN | 9781843431657 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
This moving and profoundly truthful story is told in the form of diary, kept by Angelika, the sister-in-law and friend of Klara, who, after her release from Auschwitz, wandered through war-ravaged Europe for two months before returning to Paris in August 1945. Gradually, over a period of six weeks, Klara reveals, with cold anger and pitiless lucidity, the full horror of what she experienced in Auschwitz as she struggles to readapt to normal life. Not since Sophie's Choice has a novelist succeeded in conveying - with truth, dignity, power and intelligence - the inhumanity of the death camps and the scars suffered by those who survived them.
Review
This book is a moving story re-told by the friend and sister in law of Klara the main character who has spent years in Auschwitz. It is written in the form of a diary the way that Klara painfully let her guard down and told how and what she had seen in that terrible place.
I found the tale to be very moving, and at times I was drawn to tears over what the people had suffered. Klara wandered for nearly two months after being released because she felt she needed to be an individual on her own and see if she could cope in the real world.
The heartbreak and the pain is poignantly brought out, in what she tells to Angelika over the six weeks after returning to her sister-in-laws home, in trying to come to terms with what she had witnessed in the camp.
There is truth, dignity and intelligence so beautifully written through this powerful and traumatic novel of the worst actions against humankind that have been unravelled for all the world to read about.
Soazig Aaron has bought this subject yet again to the attention of the world in a respective book that covers the facts and the pain of one of lifes survivors of the death camps.
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