It’s hard to imagine there is a place more horrible than Auschwitz but Affinity Konar has found the horror within the horror by setting her novel Mischling in Josef Mengele’s lab. Pearl and Stasha, twelve-year-old identical twins, entwined ... Read More...
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Within the first 15 pages of Savage Continent by Keith Lowe I learned that by the end of World War II:The Germans had destroyed 93% of Warsaw’s buildings 18-20 million Germans were rendered homeless due to the destruction of their ... Read More...
The Book of Aron
Set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland The Book of Aron is, like any Holocaust novel, difficult reading. But what makes it so, is not graphic depictions of violence against Jews it is the interminable grind of life lived in ... Read More...
Hausfrau
Anna is an American, married, mother of three who lives in a suburb of Zurich with her Swiss husband. Despite her efforts she cannot acclimate to Switzerland and exists in a state of low-level depression that expresses itself through having multiple ... Read More...
