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I particularly appreciated the fact that, like Sarah’s Key, this book is a work of historical fiction based on an exquisite amount of detailed research.
It shares in common with the other four the horrors of internment, the effects these have on our behaviours, and the ends to which we are prepared to go, in the case of Sage and Josef, to relieve the shame and guilt of someone to whom we have developed a strong attachment.
I found the unfolding of the events related by Minka of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz interwoven with revelations of…
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