Pam Jenoff
Paperback | Pages: 395 pages Rating: 3.98 | 18196 Users | 1533 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl #1) |
| Author | : | Pam Jenoff |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 395 pages |
| Published | : | February 20th 2007 by Mira |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. World War II. Romance. Holocaust |
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Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the resistance to use her position to access details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety—and her marriage vows—in order to help Jacob's cause. As the atrocities of war intensify, so does Emma's relationship with the Kommandant, building to a climax that will risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.Details Books In Favor Of The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl #1)
| Original Title: | The Kommandant’s Girl |
| ISBN: | 0778323420 (ISBN13: 9780778323426) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Kommandant's Girl #1 |
| Characters: | Emma Bau, Georg Richwalder, Krysia Smok, Jacob Bau, Lukasz Izakowicz, Marcin Smok, Marta Nederman, Alek Landesberg, Helga., Marek., Chaim & Reisa Gershmann, Malgorzata Turnau, Colonel Diedrichson |
| Setting: | Krakow (Kraków)(Poland) |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 18196 Users | 1533 ReviewsCrit Based On Books The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl #1)
I couldn't finish this book. I understand it's Jenoff's first book, but there is far too much showing not telling. Emma's change of emotions is far too sudden. We're told that she starved in the Ghetto, but in terms of the book, it feels like she was only in the ghetto for five minutes. Even taking into account the difference in time (it helped that I had just read Defiance), she still feels so passive and "oh dear me" that it is hard to like her.Dear Lord, that wasn't good. A protip to writers everywhere: if you're writing anything before the 1960s, characters, especially Polish Jews, shouldn't be saying "okay".
I don't know how I even finished this one.It started on a bad note, with the dumb ackowledments before the book even starts. The author mentions how she never knew about the Polish resistance until she got talking to a couple of holocaust survivors on a train. Now, I think it's wonderful that people learnt this way but if you are a grown, educated adult going to write fiction about ww2 I expect you to learn these things yourself by research and, like, general awareness of the facts.The book was
Pam Jenoff can really grab and keep your attention with her wonderful ability to humanize even the most horrific events in history. She has the ability to take you where you expect to end up, but never do you expect the road there to be the one she presents. So much devotion between some of the characters, and some heart felt sacrifices by others. This tale of the resistance is really a wonderful read, even though it deals with WWII Poland. Having recently read In My Hands, which is a memoir of
a well-done story that blends history and imagination in a moving way ... captures the atmosphere and confusion of terrifying times ... kept my interest from start to finish
This novel epitomised for me everything that is cynical, vulgar and manipulative about the romance genre. For the first hundred pages Jenoff does a pretty good job of creating the plight of a Jewish girl in Krakow during the Nazi occupation. Emma is recently married but her husband, a member of the Resistance, goes into hiding. Emma, along with her parents, is forced into the Ghetto. She is then rescued and given a Christian identity and eventually hired as secretary to a Nazi Kommandant where,
There is a lot I liked about this book. The most appealing thing is the angle from which Jenoff chooses to tell this story based on historical facts: it is a romance book that just happens to have a major historical event as its backdrop. I would venture to call it a romance thriller because you're definitely on the edge of your seat for some of the events.Emma is a Jewish girl during the German invasion of Poland. She has just gotten married when her family is moved to the ghetto of Krakow
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