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La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz
Title | La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz |
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Date | 2023-10-28 06:58:15 |
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Desciption
Sobre el fango negro de Auschwitz que todo lo engulle, Fredy Hirsch ha levantado en secreto una escuela. En un lugar donde los libros están prohibidos, la joven Dita esconde bajo su vestido los frágiles volúmenes de la biblioteca pública más pequeña, recóndita y clandestina que haya existido nunca. En medio del horror, Dita nos da una maravillosa lección de coraje: no se rinde y nunca pierde las ganas de vivir ni de leer porque, incluso en ese terrible campo de exterminio, «abrir un libro es como subirte a un tren que te lleva de vacaciones». Una emocionante novela basada en hechos reales que rescata del olvido una de las más conmovedoras historias de heroÃsmo cultural.
Review
Meh!After reading some classic Holocaust novels such as Night| by Elie Wiesel and the classic The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank or even great young adults novels such as The Edelweiss Express, or the amazing The Book Thief. I felt Antonio Iturbe and The Librarian of Auschwitz was out of its league.It lacked passion, emotion and the book was slow in many places and many of the characters less than interesting. The flashbacks, the asides, the sudden shift in POV, it just did not work.To sum it up it reads like a text book trying to be a fictional account of a real thing. The translation is poorly done if that is the issue with it.When you read a holocaust novel, the authors should respect the subject matter. Elie Wiesel did just that when he wrote Night, even young adult author Mark A. Cooper who is not known as a literate genius wrote an amazing account of children in the holocaust when he wrote the second Edelweiss Pirates novel "Edelweiss Express". It will go down as one of the most definitive works on Holocaust literature.Those novels stick with you when you take a break from reading, you could be in the shower or running to catch the subway and the novel is still haunting your thoughts. Sadly the author missed the emotion, the stories are of course important but so is the writing.