The Song and the Truth
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (670 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375702776 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Called from the sumptuous tropics back to The Hague, with stops in Marseilles, Paris, and London along the way, Lulu’s family is soon forced into hiding as the war approaches.A moving account of a childhood overwhelmed by history, The Song and the Truth is a profound meditation on how the paradox of memory–at once intransigent and elusive–shapes our lives.. But when one day Lulu innocently describes a scene she stumbled across late one night, the repercussions are felt for many years and across two continents. Living with her parents on the island of Java in the late 1930s, five-year-old Lulu moves in a magical world of daydreams and island myths. Set against the backdrop of the Dutch East Indies and Nazi-occupied Holland, this luminous novel delivers epic themes filtered through the rich imagination of a young girl
The story is narrated by Louise Benda, who is only 10 when the novel closes in 1945. Written in the style of a youthful memoirAwith all of memory's distortions and defectionsAthe novel follows a Jewish family from their comfortable life in the exotic Dutch East Indies to their increasingly isolated existence in The Hague in 1939, and to their WWII hiding place in rural Holland. New characters enter the plot roughly the way they enter a child's lifeAwith little or no explanation. From Publishers Weekly Dutch writer Ruebsamen casts a Proustian spell in her third novel, a bestseller in the Netherlands, published he
"A lovely book that helps the reader appreciate life" according to landiA lovely book that helps the reader appreciate life _Reviewed by Randy Farnsworth, author of "A Stand Yet Taken".As soon as I started reading this book, I found myself absolutely intrigued by the story. Seeing the magical world of early-twentieth century Indonesia from the eyes of a five year old was truly enjoyable. Ruebsamen has a way of writing that puts the reader directly into the mind of the nar. A lovely book that helps the reader appreciate life _Reviewed by Randy Farnsworth, author of "A Stand Yet Taken".As soon as I started reading this book, I found myself absolutely intrigued by the story. Seeing the magical world of early-twentieth century Indonesia from the eyes of a five year old was truly enjoyable. Ruebsamen has a way of writing that puts the reader directly into the mind of the nar. A lovely book that helps the reader appreciate life _Reviewed by Randy Farnsworth, author of "A Stand Yet Taken".As soon as I started reading this book, I found myself absolutely intrigued by the story. Seeing the magical world of early-twentieth century Indonesia from the eyes of a five year old was truly enjoyable. Ruebsamen has a way of writing that puts the reader directly into the mind of the nar. 7. _Reviewed by Randy Farnsworth, author of "A Stand Yet Taken".As soon as I started reading this book, I found myself absolutely intrigued by the story. Seeing the magical world of early-twentieth century Indonesia from the eyes of a five year old was truly enjoyable. Ruebsamen has a way of writing that puts the reader directly into the mind of the nar. I couldn't put it down A Customer the book review that I read in the paper said that the first part of this book, which is set in Java is majical but that when the setting moves to Europe it becomes ordinary. I disagree. I ordered it because of the exotic early setting but I liked it even better as it went on. Description is important to me in a book and I thought that the writer act. Unexpected, Excellent, and Enjoyable! Because this book is about Jews during WWII I thought it would be depressing - it wasn't. Because this book is told from a child's point of view I thought it would be childish or stream of consciousness - it wasn't. This book is alternately a little funny and a little sad, alternately vague and brilliantly lucid, but always it was engaging and deligh