The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)
by Diane Ackerman
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Author: Diane AckermanEdition: Hardcover
Format: Large Print
Published: 2008-01-09
ISBN: 1410403491
Number of pages: 487
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Book Review: Story could have been told better....
Summary: 2 Stars
This book was a disappointment. It sounded so interesting. A true war story of the Warsaw Zoo. It had potential but it fell apart. It did not flow. It was choppy and sometimes it was hard to follow, time and place. The author, I think in order to educate the reader, went off on tangents that made it even more confusing. There were some really interesting parts of this book especially Polish heritage, the war, the "Ghetto", the zoo and the animals and of course, Antonia, Jan and their family. I just think the author could have done a better job telling the story.
Summary of The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)
Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife. Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textured portrait of a natural world that few of us would recognize. The similarities end there, however, as Ackerman explores how that sense of natural order imploded under the Nazi occupation of Poland. Jan and Antonina Zabiniski--keepers of the Warsaw Zoo who sheltered Jews from the Warsaw ghetto--serve as Ackerman's lens to this moment in time, and she weaves their experiences and reflections so seamlessly into the story that it would be easy to read the book as Antonina's own miraculous memoir. Jan and Antonina's passion for life in all its diversity illustrates ever more powerfully just how narrow the Nazi worldview was, and what tragedy it wreaked. The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful testament to their courage and--like Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise--brings this period of European history into intimate view. --Anne BartholomewHolocaust Books
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