- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Independent
‘It is as important as The Diary of Anne Frank - and equally unforgettable’
Review
'This is a work of shocking revelation ... This book is a fascinating study of the way one child's life was ripped into shreds by the Shoah. It is as important as The Diary of Anne Frank - and equally unforgettable' Independent 'Brilliant ... it is wise, witty, blunt, brutally honest and unsentimental, and as moving as only the naked personal truth, and its bold razor-sharp analysis, can be' Guardian
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wasn't surprised to learn after reading this book that Ruth Kluger is a professor of literature. She has written a brilliant and intelligent piece of literature that is much more than a holocaust diary. Kluger writes about "her" holocaust, the events that she experienced as a child and manages to show us a different perception of the experience. (Beware - those who morbidly read it, looking only for shocking horrific descriptions of nazi attrocities will be disappointed.) Ruth Kluger's book is about herself, about her life and mostly about her complicated relationship with her mother and of this she writes openly and with astounding honesty and intellgence.
I cannot praise this book or its author enough. I picked it up on a whim, and literally could not put it down. I believe it is one of the first books that I have ever read cover to cover without stopping - totally compulsive.
What an amazing lady! You MUST read this book. Her writing is superb.
I cannot praise this book or its author enough. I picked it up on a whim, and literally could not put it down. I believe it is one of the first books that I have ever read cover to cover without stopping - totally compulsive.
What an amazing lady! You MUST read this book. Her writing is superb.
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is an uncoventional memoir which undermines many "popular" perceptions of the Holocaust and that is what makes it such an interesting read. She begins the book honestly and constantly encourages the reader to form their own opinions. If you have the opportunity to read it in German first, do!
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is not going to tell you much about the Holocaust - it focuses on the thoughts and feelings of the author. This is fine in its place, but it soon gets noticable that these responses are out of context when the details are missing, and they are often passed over or a comment made that enough has been written elsewhere. I am not reading "elsewhere" and would have preferred more details here, in the book that I am reading. I would recommend "I have lived a thousand years" or "Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chamber" for books that will inspire you and teach you about the atrocities of the holocaust.
A large section of this book is not focused during the holocaust - it talks about life afterwards and the rest of the author's life so far. Again this is all fine, but not what I was expecting when I purchased this book.
A large section of this book is not focused during the holocaust - it talks about life afterwards and the rest of the author's life so far. Again this is all fine, but not what I was expecting when I purchased this book.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Landscapes of Memory - a Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
First of all, the content of this book deals with more than childhood, but I was not able to get more than half way through the book, because, on page 136, Ruth Kluger says "No... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Sydney Nicholas Baker
oh god do i have to carry on reading this book?
I have read alot of literature related to the holocaust and i have to say that aside from "hasidic tales of the holocaust" this is the most awful read ever. Read more
Published on 20 April 2010 by rhians cat
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > Europe
- Books > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > Germany
- Books > Biography > Historical > United States > Military
- Books > Biography > Holocaust
- Books > Biography > Political > Countries & Regions > Europe
- Books > Biography > Political > Countries & Regions > Germany
- Books > Biography > Political > United States
- Books > Biography > War & Espionage > World War II
- Books > History > Europe > Germany
- Books > History > Europe > Holocaust
- Books > History > Military History
- Books > History > World History > World War II 1939-1945 > Battles & Campaigns
- Books > History > World History > World War II 1939-1945 > Biographies & Memoirs
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
