Tamar Bergman (1939–2016)
Autore di Along the Tracks
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo Zeev Bergman, source http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13771
Opere di Tamar Bergman
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Bergman, Tamar
- Data di nascita
- 1939-01-29
- Data di morte
- 2016
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Israel
- Luogo di nascita
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Luogo di residenza
- Tel Aviv, Israel
Paris, France - Istruzione
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sorbonne - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Berenstein Prize (Ha-Yeled Mi-"Shama", 1984)
Ze’ev (1989)
Ze’ev (2000)
Best Israeli children's book from Center for Children's and Youth Literature at the University of Haifa (Ha-Yeled Mi-"Shama")
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 174
- Popolarità
- #123,126
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 12
- Lingue
- 1
Along the Tracks is just such a story: a Polish-Jewish family who were able to escape the Nazi terror by fleeing deep into the Soviet Union. This novel, based on a true story, is about this family and in particular the oldest son, Yankele aka Yasha.
It was a compelling story and definitely a page-turner, and showed a side of the Holocaust and World War II that children aren't often told about. Although they may have never had to deal with concentration camps or gas chambers, the family had to deal with illness, separation, forced labor, starvation, homelessness, and other trials of war.
I thought the second half of the story was much better than the first half. This was mainly because the second half was told from one point of view while the first half had like a zillion different narrators switching back and forth, sometimes three on the same page, which was really jarring and annoying for me. It might not bother some people as much, though. Once the story got into the second half, which had only Yankele/Yasha's perspective, it really galloped along for me.
If you're interested in stories of European refugees who fled into the USSR during World War II, I recommend Anatole Konstantin's A Red Boyhood: Growing Up Under Stalin. He was also Jewish and his family fled to Kazakhstan for the duration of the war; his experience was quite similar to the novel.… (altro)