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I read this book because it appeared on James Mustich's "1000 Books to Read Before You Die" list. I'm now at 85/1000, haha!
I'd never heard of it, so despite my misgivings about Mustich's book (I'll review it one day) it is introducing me to books I never would have read.
It's easy to discern what it's about based on the cover. This is the autobiographical account of an Italian Jewish man who survived not only Auschwitz but the haphazard repatriation back to Italy in the hands of the Russian Army. It's beautiful, awful, exhausting, and somehow hopeful.
I do think it's a book everyone should read once.
I'd never heard of it, so despite my misgivings about Mustich's book (I'll review it one day) it is introducing me to books I never would have read.
It's easy to discern what it's about based on the cover. This is the autobiographical account of an Italian Jewish man who survived not only Auschwitz but the haphazard repatriation back to Italy in the hands of the Russian Army. It's beautiful, awful, exhausting, and somehow hopeful.
I do think it's a book everyone should read once.
The characterization in this is really good. Took a while to get going (for me) and then I was very invested.
This was shockingly racist?
I tried to view it as a product of its time but whew, multiple cultures are maligned and it's quite misogynistic as well. All for a Newbery winning title about the autbiography of a doll!
I tried to view it as a product of its time but whew, multiple cultures are maligned and it's quite misogynistic as well. All for a Newbery winning title about the autbiography of a doll!
An emotional essay about youth immigration from Central America to the US.
I loved this. Beautiful, insightful, and succinct.
