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Cargando... Those Who Are Saved (2021)por Alexis Landau
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. When Vera and Max, Jew immigrants living in France, are told to report to an internment camp, they must make the difficult decision to leave their young daughter Lucie with her nanny. Shortly after they are interned, they have the opportunity to escape across the mountains and ultimately to America. Haunted with guilt and fear, Vera finds it difficult to make a new life without her daughter. This was a well written and engaging story. The characters were extremely believable and relatable. I felt Vera's pain at the separation from her daughter, and found myself reading long into the night to find out what would happen. The book really needed an epilogue, which is my main criticism. Overall, 4 out of 5 stars. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera's wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. Ordered to report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: bring Lucie with her to the camp, or put her into hiding? Believing the war will end soon, Vera chooses to leave Lucie in safety. She cannot know that she and her husband will have an opportunity to escape, to flee to America. She cannot know that Lucie will be too far to reach in time. And so begins a heartbreaking separation and journey, a war and a continent apart. Vera's marriage will falter under the surreal sun of California. But Vera's love for Lucie and her faith that her daughter lives, will only grow. As her determination to return to France and find Lucie crystalizes, she meets Sasha, a man on his own search for meaning. Together they will search for Lucie. They will discover her fate." -- Back cover. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I think the reader is meant to be on the edge of their seats at the near misses and the lucky connections (as God wills?) in Vera's search for her daughter.
That brings up the second dissatisfaction I had with this book: rich people partying and drinking while discussing abstract ideas.
Then, there is the name dropping: Vera is taken to see Dr Bettelheim, recommended by Dr. Adler. The ex-pats reminding him of Fritz Lang. Hollywood industry greats Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Hedy Lamarr, L.B.Mayer.
The side story of Sasha feeling a nameless shame from his Russian childhood about his absent father, his remembered experiences fighting in WWII, and his desire to make the American public see the consequences of war might have made for a more interesting story but it would have to be told by someone with more strength as a writer.
I know we are supposed to identify with the loss and guilt Vera feels for leaving her daughter behind, but the glorification of motherhood, while understandable in someone who has such feelings, did not strike a chord in me, even given my own years raising a family and the joy I felt in their infancy. ( )