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The Other Way Round (1975)

door Judith Kerr

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Partly autobiographical, this is the second title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past... It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an "enemy alien". Those bombs are coming from Germany - the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive? This was previously published as The Other Way Round.… (meer)
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Excellent - and interesting that they lived in hotel continental in Bedford terrace near Russell Square
  MiriamL | Dec 30, 2021 |
Beautifully simple with engaging characters and a heartwarming story. A lovely book that I couldn't put down. ( )
  crimsonraider | Apr 1, 2021 |
This is the second book in an autobiographical novels trilogy that started with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. I was so worried that I would not like this book the way I did the first but I really enjoyed it. I’m still worried about the third book but want to read it.

It was lovely getting acquainted again with Anna, her brother Max, her mother and her father, and many new interesting characters.

I read this book as a buddy read with Hilary and Gundula. It’s a great buddy read book. Hilary and I particularly enjoyed and benefited reading chapters at close to the same times and discussing things every two chapters.

This author writes so well, and is a great storyteller, and skilled at getting into and describing characters, and also places and experiences and situations. I felt as though I was really there as I read.

It was so infuriating the way Max and Anna were treated because they were born in Germany and not England, especially given that they were Jewish, left in 1933, and their father being an anti-Nazi writer. They’re both so talented and smart and skilled. I know this prejudice was a common problem though.

This book made me want to learn more and many times I looked up the Blitz and streets and landmarks and buildings and sites when they were mentioned.

Unlike the first book, a children’s book, this it did veer into young adult territory. I will say there is one character I disliked intensely, even though there ended up being one sort of redeeming thing about them.

I loved Anna’s art commission and wish there had been illustrations of her drawings at least. I do think that even though this is ya and the first book was children’s that the charming pen and ink illustrations in the first book would have added something here, especially since Anna is an artists and her drawings are often mentioned. The book was fine sans pictures but I think would have been even better with them included throughout this second book.

So much was touching. For some reason the couple times I was near tears at times, its seemed to usually be around scenes with Papa, with Anna and Papa.

I feel the reader gets an accurate sense, as in the first book, of what it would feel like to be a refugee, and in now the family is in their fourth country (Germany to Switzerland, to France, and now in England) and also how much easier it is for young vs. older people to learn new languages, adapt to new cultures and circumstances, etc. I also got a good sense of how it would feel to have privations of food and to live in near poverty and have those worries, to fear the bombings, and just to live with the uncertainty that is war. Despite all these characters go through I often thought of those who did not escape Nazi occupied Europe in time, and could sort of understand how these characters seemed to accept their hardships. They too knew the alternative.

I loved the story, the characters and found this to be a fine sequel. I hope I’ll feel as positively about book 3. From what little description I’ve seen of it, each book has great differences from the others.

This book has two titles. The other is Bombs on Aunt Dainty. It was interesting to get to the part in the book that made clear why the other title exists, but I think The Other Way Round title is most fitting for this second book.

I read a 1975 edition from Open Library. Thank goodness for that site. It often has books that seem impossible to get otherwise, at least not for free.

four and a half stars ( )
  Lisa2013 | Jul 22, 2019 |
Picking up three years after the conclusion of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, this second autobiographical children's novel from Judith Kerr - originally published in 1975 as The Other Way Round, it has recently been re-released in the UK as Bombs On Aunt Dainty - follows the story of Anna, her brother Max, and her mother and father, as they struggle through the war years in England. Now a teenager, and fully assimilated into the English life and language, Anna must find a job quickly when the wealthy family friends with whom she has been living return to America, and she must move in with her parents at the run-down refugee hotel where they have been living. As the war progresses, all three must contend with the horrors of the Blitz. Max, in the meantime, finds his life as a promising Cambridge scholar interrupted, when he is interned as an enemy alien. The family carry on, each trying in their own way to find a place to belong, although this time it is the children - Max, with his interest in the law, and his desire to join the British Air Force, and Anna, with her newly discovered passion for drawing and painting, and her very first love "affair" - that are more successful...

Immensely engaging, often heartwarming, and sometimes deeply poignant, The Other Way Round is a worthy sequel to When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, offering a further exploration of the emigrant experience, as Anna and her family must contend with all the difficulties of life in WWII Britain - food rationing, bombings - as well as the experience of being considered foreigners, even though they want (at least in Anna and Max's case) to be English. The reversal hinted at in the title, is of the role of the parents and children in the family, as Max and Anna must move to support their mother and father, who never quite adjust to life in England. There are moments of extreme pathos here - the story of Uncle Victor (the husband of the "Aunt Dainty" mentioned in the new title), who survived a concentration camp, but was completely broken in body and spirit, had me in tears - and moments of deep satisfaction, as when Anna completes her first big artistic project, in the form of a series of murals on the walls of a local cafe. Most powerful of all, for me however, was Anna's evolving relationship with her parents, particularly her father, and her growing sensitivity to their life struggles. As someone who recently lost my own father (the one year anniversary of his death just passed), I found myself immensely moved by some of the scenes toward the end of the book, in which Anna realizes that her father will not live forever, and contemplates life without him.

A marvelous family story and an important work of historical fiction, The Other Way Round is a book I would wholeheartedly recommend, particularly to those readers who enjoyed When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. Sadly, it does not have any of the author's illustrations, as that earlier work did, but then, I think this is really more of a young adult novel, than one for children. I will definitely be tracking down the third and final installment of this family's saga, A Small Person Far Away! ( )
3 stem AbigailAdams26 | Apr 19, 2013 |
Este libro es la continuación de "Cuando Hitler robó el conejo rosa". En el libro anterior habíamos dejado a Anna y su familia poniendo pie en Inglaterra, la que va a convertirse en su última patria. Esta novela no comienza inmediatamente después; han pasado unos años y nos encontramos con una Anna de 16 años adolescente. Al contrario que le ha sucedido en Suiza y en Francia donde la adaptación, con sus más y sus menos ha sido siempre relativamente sencilla, no le está pasando lo mismo aquí. Su facilidad para aprender los idiomas y para mimetizarse con el resto de las jovencitas de su edad hacen que todo el mundo crea que es británica de nacimiento. Pero a ella le cuesta encontrar su sitio mucho más de lo que le ha costado en cualquier otro lugar.Mientras los niños y los ancianos huyen de la ciudad hacia el campo tratando de evitar los bombardeos nocturnos, Anna y su familia permanecen en el Hotel Continental habituados a las sirenas y al zumbido de las bombas cayendo a su alrededor. Ella, consciente de la precariedad de la situación financiera de su familia, que no ha mejorado mucho pese al traslado, busca a toda costa ser útil.
  kika66 | Dec 14, 2010 |
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Partly autobiographical, this is the second title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past... It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an "enemy alien". Those bombs are coming from Germany - the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive? This was previously published as The Other Way Round.

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