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The Street Sweeper (2011)

by Elliot Perlman(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594488479 (ISBN13: 9781594488474)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: Compelling and breathtaking. Gut-wrenching and heart warming. A story about how stories are linked, about how histories conspire to bring us together even though we seem so far apart. A favourite paragraph: p.177 Adam thought he might he hungry. He was having trouble opening his peanuts. In disgust with himself he ended up tearing violently at the pack and some of the peanuts flew towards the front of the plane as though more serious than Adam about getting to Chicago.
review 2: The world is small. Lamont Williams, an African American parolee, working at a Manhattan hospital, becomes a friend to a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz. He wants to tell his story. Historian Adam Zignelik is in professional and personal turmoil. He is attempting to... more research a subject that he promised a family friend to look into. The author does an awesome job in intertwining their stories and the different eras of world history. Dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism and racism there is also human kindness. The world is indeed small. I highly recommend this book. less

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