Book description
Suddenly two pairs of black boots appeared in the shrubbery near us… I looked up very, very slowly, from the boots to the uniforms and all the way up to the caps against the blue sky, and then quickly looked down… Two German officers… Finally, one of them addressed us…
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1 author picked In a Land of Forest and Darkness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
What a rare voice to hear from, and how generous the storyteller is, and how loving the author is to replace his own name with the interview subject, and how poignant and startling the subject's memory is, and how specifically detailed some passages are, and how terrible and terrorizing is the fog of war and the experience of the partisans, and how perfect, and affirming, and glorious, and resonant and with-a-flourish is that last page of the book, and one simply cannot conclude this work of importance and excellence without dwelling on it for a long, long time.
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