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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Plum Tree (edizione 2012)di Ellen Marie Wiseman (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The narration, by Madeleine Lambert, was a bit unnatural--the tone of the character voices seemed exaggerated, probably to distinguish them from each other, and the narrated parts seemed too fast and mechanically delivered. The story is primarily a Holocaust story, with an emphasis on the sudden descent into poverty, fear, and strife that the average compassionate German citizen experienced, being pitted against authorities, mandatory enlistment, and those neighbors who enthusiastically supported Hitler's regime. ( ) "Debes florecer donde has sido plantada", le aconseja su abuela a Christine Bölz, una sirvienta de diecisiete años. Pero ella quiere conocer ese mundo que hay más allá de su pueblo, apenas vislumbrado gracias a la música, los libros... y a Isaac Bauerman, el hijo de la acaudalada familia judía para la que trabaja. El futuro que ambos sueñan compartir tropezará con obstáculos más insalvables que su origen social. Bajo el régimen de Hitler, en Alemania se aprueban nuevas leyes que prohíben a Christine volver a su trabajo y tener cualquier relación con Isaac. Pero ella se enfrentará a la ira de la Gestapo y los horrores de Dachau en su afán por estar con el hombre a quien ama, por sobrevivir al horror y, finalmente, preservar la verdad. Christine and her family work as servants in pre-WW2 Germany in Isaac’s house. Christine is a poor, working class Christian. Isaac’s family are wealthy Jews. They are unable to be together because of their difference in station. When they fall in love, it’s in secret. Then when WW2 comes, Issac is sent away. This was a difficult novel to read in places, but very well written. The descriptions are vivid and the writing doesn’t shirk away from describing in detail every painful and gory event of war and mass slaughter. When Isaac turns up later in their village as a prisoner of the Nazis, Christine helps him escape. And then they are both in grave danger. Some twists and turns in this I wasn’t expecting! Please excuse typos/name misspellings. Entered on screen reader. For someone who never went to college nor took a creative writing class, this work is superb. The story is believable from start to finish and heart wrenching throughout. Sobering to read. Today we are all so soft we would never survive a place like Dachau or a war like WW II. I hope this makes it to the big screen. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books-and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job-and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive-and finally, to speak out. Set against the backdrop of the German homefront, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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