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Train To Warsaw, The: A Novel (2014)

by Gwen Edelman(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Grove Press

review 1: A beautiful, memorable book.Its simple, sparsely punctuated style might aggravate some but it caused this reader to slow down and savor the unique but compelling writing. A Polish refugee couple from London return to Warsaw 40 years later, burdened with their experiences of the Warsaw ghetto. A trip of painful memories and new discoveries from the past set in contemporary Warsaw in which their world no longer exists, except in ongoing anti-Semitic, "let's forget about the past" attitudes. These two will never forget, their tortured past as real as today, even though the man is now a world renown writer based on his stories about life in Nazi Poland. Vodka and endless cigarettes are seemingly constant but seem to indicate how such releases are the only escapes from the past... more, except their shared bonds. This is a love story, a Holocaust book, but more the intertwining of the two produces a wonderful novel.
review 2: Jascha and Lilla were lovers in the Warsaw Ghetto. Years later they reunite in Londonjust as Jascha first book is going to be published.Forty years have passed, he a very successful writer and is invited backto Warsaw to read from one of his books. Jascha has no desire to return,but Lilka wants to return to her beloved Warsaw.It is freezing cold December when they return and many secrets thatwe're never told to each other come out. A story well told, letting readersknow that terrible things happened a long time ago. less

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