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Despite this being popular and a best seller, I was really uncomfortable with this book. It is what I understand is called "faction". A fictional stor
Despite this being popular and a best seller, I was really uncomfortable with this book. It is what I understand is called "faction". A fictional story based on historical events and individuals. However, for me the book was too far-fetched and too romanticised (and I don't mean the romance between Lali and Gita), but rather the idealised story telling around a central heroic character, largely overlooking the day-to-day reality of murder, sadism, squalor, starvation, illness and desperation that almost all this that were not gassed on arrival endured. Imagine a book about Auschwitz written by Barbara Cartland? I imagine that it might have come out a bit as this book did … no problem getting out of tricky situations, easy access to jewels (from Germans in Auschwitz and even also jewels from Russians after the war), currency, chocolate, meat, food - even penicillin! Plenty of opportunity for romance and love-making in private. Even half-decent relationships with SS guards! I am not saying that these things never happened, they probably did in very rare and exceptional circumstances, it is just how they all magically and inexplicably come together for one individual in the wooden telling of this story. It leads the gullible to imagine that if they were in Lale's position, they too could have found romance and survived. The truth is that 1.1 million of the 1.3 million human beings that entered Auschwitz were murdered, and the very few that survived were treated brutally and horrifically. The chance of an experience like Lale's is, similar to the chance of winning the lottery. Whilst I am sure that the book earned the author a lot of money if you want to learn about the reality of life and death in Auschwitz - read another book. I recommend "If This is a Man" by Primo Levi.
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