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The Ausländer (2011)

The Ausländer (2011)

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3.74 of 5 Votes: 5
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ISBN
1599906333 (ISBN13: 9781599906331)
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Childrens

About book The Ausländer (2011)

My true rating for this is 3.5 stars: The evocation of how the propaganda permeated Nazi Germany was fascinating--talk about the banality of evil!--and the story moved at a good pace. I know some readers complained that it moved too slowly, but I thought the slow dawning on the protagonist of just what German society was like at the time was spot-on. But the writing was pedestrian at best. At first I thought that it was a stylistic choice, in keeping with the relative youth and naivety of the main character, but as the story and POV widened, it became clear such wasn't the case. A shame, as the merely serviceable prose keeps this from being a truly moving story. Just couldn't bring myself to keep reading. And for me to not finish a story set in the Holocaust, well, that is saying something. It read very cut.and.dry.and.precise. (periods intentional) It lacked emotion. I found I just didn’t care about Peter or him realizing his predicament.I must note that I read this in the midst of an unfortunate stint of not being pulled-into books/stories. I hit a real dry spell in October and maybe, as I often say, I would enjoy it or find merit if I read it at a different time.

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"a superb addition"; "combines action-packed adventure with blood-chilling history" SLJ Sept/11
—qwert

interessant om eens vanaf een ander perspectief de 2e wereldoorlog te bekijken
—arnaud

Difficult subject, very nicely handled. Good ending. Great.
—paresh

One of the best books i've read.
—Diamondzz15

Well researched. Brilliant.
—ANGEL

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