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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The stories of the holocaust have been recounted in at least a few different ways. I've found those with the most objective narrators, e.g. Primo Levi's If This is a Man, to be the most moving and most literarily satisfying. As humans, it's only necessary to be shown hell, we all have enough experience with nightmares to make any author's pathos superfluous. That is why horror stories are so universally appreciated. Mr. Shepard tells us an historical story that we already know in detail. He tells the story through the eyes of a boy who says, "Whether I was happy or unhappy, I took things as I found them.", and who is the target of psychological projection by everyone around him. His constantly complaining mother and his callous smuggler friends all, in a philosophically absurd fashion, accuse him of being self-centered. The overall effect is that we seem to have been given an honest vision of these events, and the result is devastating. This book tells the story of a boy growing up in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII. It is told in a simple and straightforward manner, the way in which a youth would speak. I imagine this method of writing is much more difficult than a typical novel which uses all the words at the author's disposal. It describes a heroic figure from the boy's perspective, the doctor who runs the ghetto orphanage, and his positive impact on the boy even in the midst of unspeakably horrible conditions. It is a book that reminds us of the need to remember, so we never repeat, the attempt to wipe out an entire race. This book is about the Holocaust and the cruelty human beings are capable of. The story takes place in the Warsaw ghetto and was brutal to read. Cruelty in this story comes not just from Nazis but from other victims. It was tough to get through and I had a hard time getting into the story as it was told mostly through dialog.
Shepard’s fidelity to the historical record is impressive, but what makes The Book of Aron a work of art is his obedience to the boy’s restricted perspective. ... by reclaiming an insignificant voice and deploying it to observe a great man [Janusz Korczak], Shepard turns hell into a testament of love and sacrifice. The Book of Aron is his best novel yet, a short and moving masterpiece. Korczak is, of course, a renowned historical figure: author, pediatrician, activist for the rights of the child and director of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw that the Nazis ordered him to relocate within the walls of the ghetto. It is the relationship between Aron and Korczak that sits at the heart of the novel and, indeed, gives heart to this bleak story of loss, deprivation and betrayal. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Arons bok är en mästerlig roman om Warszawas getto, sett ur ett barns ögon. Det är en fascinerande, hjärtskärande och - trots allt - bitvis komisk berättelse som kommer att bli en av förintelselitteraturens framtida klassiker.Aron är en egensinnig pojke som tillsammans med sin familj förs från den polska landsbygden till Warszawas getto. Där riskerar han sitt liv tillsammans med en handfull andra pojkar och flickor genom att smuggla varor över gettots murar. Barnen jagas av utpressare, konkurrerande gäng och såväl judisk, polsk som tysk polis.Så småningom räddas Aron från gatan av Janusz Korczak, en polsk-judisk läkare känd i hela Europa som en av de främsta förespråkarna för barns rättigheter. Efter den tyska invasionen av Polen tvingade nazisterna Korczak att flytta det judiska barnhemmet "De föräldralösas hus" till det nyinrättade gettot. Länge lyckades han hålla nazisterna på avstånd innan han och barnen med övrig personal till slut sattes på tåget till Treblinka. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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So... thanks, Tournament of Books, for leading me to read this. I guess. ( )