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Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:Parade "Best Books of Summer" pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads "Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021" pick
The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis�??until a secret from her past threatens everything. After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest�??and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.
Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds, and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon, The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author whose writing has been hailed as "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author), "immersive and evocative" (Publishers Weekly), and "gripping" (Tampa Bay Times… (meer)
Oh wow, this is a book I will read again! I love historical fiction, especially stories like this that tell me something about history that I'd never heard about before. I had no idea of the brave, tenacious Jews who lived in the forest during WWII, surviving extreme hardships. The author did a fantastic job of researching how they managed to survive, and I found the author notes at the end of the book as fascinating as the story itself. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book that I consider a must-read! ( )
Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
This falls somewhere between 3 and 4 stars for me. I was so excited to start this, the description sounded amazing. However the writing didn't really draw me in and I didn't find myself excited to pick it up at the end of the day (I didn't hate picking it up either but I wasn't thinking about it throughout the day). In the spots where major things happened I found I didn't have much to any emotional reaction until the end and even then I should have had a stronger reaction. I also felt it ended super abruptly. ( )
A two-year-old girl is stolen from her German parents. Her kidnapper somehow senses that this young girl has a much greater destiny to fulfill. The old woman teaches this youngster many things. They live in a forest, making do with what nature supplies as well as what the old woman can steal. Two decades later, it does seem like this now young woman will have a special destiny. She encounters some Jews who have fled the Nazis and are hiding in the forest. They are intellectuals, and have little of the skills needy to survive in the deep woods. Now, this woman understands what her purpose in life is, and helps more than one group of Jews to survive until it is safe to return. This book is well written, though the subject matter is brutal, and the many deaths, heart-rending. It would have been a stronger book had the author eliminated some (or all) of the romantic passages. They just didn’t seem to fit the main thrust of the story. The supernatural overtures were also out of place, in my opinion. Was it a sixth sense that these two women of forest had, or something more? Also without explanation is the voice the woman heard in times of danger, and the feeling the “dove” on her wrist sent her. The story had plenty of substance, it didn’t need these additions. ( )
What an incredible story of jewish people fleeing Nazi terrorism to survive in the forest. Yona a young woman raised by Jerusza to survive alone in the forest, meets up with a group of people fleeing the towns under Nazi occupation. She becomes instrumental in their survival. Recommended. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To Kathy Trocheck (Mary Kay Andrews), Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Mary Alice Monroe, Meg Walker, Shaun Hettinger, and all the members of our Friends & Fiction community. You filled a dark year with light, love, and friendship, and I will be grateful for all the ways you saved me.
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The old woman watched from the shadows outside Behaimstrasse 72, waiting for the lights inside to blink out.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Lives are circles spinning across the world, and when they're meant to intersect again, they do.
Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.
The Germans, they don't just wipe out our people. They wipe out our future.
It's the cracks in us that make us who we are.
The universe is always in balance...Summer and winter. Day and night. Sustenance and poison. Good and evil. To know the light, you must also know the darkness.
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
And on the sixteenth of July, 2019, she died quietly in the little cabin she had built with her own hands, both of her children beside her, under the light of the first full moon of her hundredth year of life, just as an old woman had promised she would, so many years before.
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:Parade "Best Books of Summer" pick * Real Simple pick * She Reads "Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021" pick
The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis�??until a secret from her past threatens everything. After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest�??and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.
Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds, and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon, The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author whose writing has been hailed as "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author), "immersive and evocative" (Publishers Weekly), and "gripping" (Tampa Bay Times
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I love historical fiction, especially stories like this that tell me something about history that I'd never heard about before. I had no idea of the brave, tenacious Jews who lived in the forest during WWII, surviving extreme hardships.
The author did a fantastic job of researching how they managed to survive, and I found the author notes at the end of the book as fascinating as the story itself.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book that I consider a must-read! (