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Title: Graphic scenes are unnecessary
Review: This novel details a wonderful relationship between a boy, and a man and his village who open the boy's eyes to the world outside of his mother's over-zealous religious thinking. My problem with the book is the chapter called, "Home" where the author goes into great detail about the physical abuse the boy went through at the hands of his own mother, and the image of an infant dying in the small boys' arms. Who wants to read violence against children in such great detail?Overall the story is nice, and provides a good fictional overview of WWII. The author took the mother's religious overzealousness way too far in the descriptions.
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