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The Train To Warsaw (2014)

by Gwen Edelman(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0802122442 (ISBN13: 9780802122445)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Grove Press

review 1: The Train to Warsaw was a difficult book for me to read because it hit personal raw nerves. Both my parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland and neither one of them had any desire to ever return to that country. Just like the characters in the book, they always said that everything that they had before the war was destroyed and that their Polish neighbors who they thought were their friends turned out to be false friends who were happy to take over Jewish apartments, businesses and other possessions. Memory often softens events but forgiveness is impossible.
review 2: Jascha and Lilka are living in London, forty years after their escape from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Jascha, an author receives an invitation to do a reading in Warsaw, and this sees the... morem on a journey back to the city they thought they would not see again. Bringing back memories of their childhoods and family and friends they lost, this short novel is moving and brutal at the same time.Although touching, somehow I felt a bit cheated reading this book, as somehow it did seem to brush over several areas, and I wanted to know more about their lives. I couldn't quite believe in the characters and picture them in my mind. less

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