Eva Weaver
Auteur van De poppenspeler van Warschau een roman
Werken van Eva Weaver
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Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
Statistieken
- Werken
- 3
- Leden
- 163
- Populariteit
- #129,735
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 8
- ISBNs
- 36
- Talen
- 8
Anyway, I revised my opinion and became much more positive as I got immersed in the book - and then changed my mind again. This is a harrowing story based on the life of a Warsaw-born Jew as he endures his later childhood incarcerated in the Jewish ghetto. There are later equally harrowing pictures of life in a Siberian prison camp: this was not his experience, but that of Max,a German soldier whose path he had crossed in Warsaw.
The prose, particularly dialogue, is often stiff and awkward, but I was left with the impression that Weaver was writing the book with an eye on its possibilities as a film. There was something about its telling which seemed to be in Glorious Technicolor. Mika's survival against the odds somehow never seemed quite realistic to me, nor his concern for the children of the orphanage and hospital in the ghetto. I read the book willingly enough, and learned a lot, but I shan't be in a hurry to seek out any future books by this author.
It's made me wonder whether I'd still enjoy Ian Serralier's 'The Silver Sword', which covers some of the same ground, as much as I did when I was 11 and first read it.… (meer)