Title: Nihilistic drama
Review: I realize lots of people like this book, but I want to insert a word of caution. The book is engaging and gripping, but ultimately, it is a nihilistic view of this period of history. There are no winners, not even survivors, only victims. No triumph over the Nazi evil, no future for those who fought them, no State of Israel (one character, after losing everything of course, wanders off to "Palestine" and is never heard from again.) The woman who lives past the war can never look forward, but remains in grief over the past. Religion (both Jewish and Christian) is whimsical and finally irrelevant to life and the future. I do not recommend this book to Holocaust survivors, and I hope no one would suggest making it required reading in school. It can be enjoyed as a melodrama, but it is not instructional.
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