{"id":10244,"date":"2025-01-08T22:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-the-girl-who-lived\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:26:40","slug":"an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-the-girl-who-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=10244","title":{"rendered":"An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The Girl Who Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read<b><i> lots<\/i><\/b> of great books for young readers, but this for me is one of the very best: using the simple, direct language of children&#8217;s literature to convey an almost unspeakable horror. And to convey it from the viewpoint of a child. Which is why this month, for this blog, I&#8217;m simply going to repeat what I wrote about it a few weeks ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjpTq4KlXBpIX7xa3tXs8xZthgkfX1GL3XfVp2-V-X8e9wOCY96acz0KMlBC0UfFRWYk_HRIXhfcMyhqd9g0xvlagevTyEk9JPqFjhxvq5lzr2WzCSGoylxlt_1MQ-lRMSkL_JlP3OG-aZ9CdQK2es5orH_7UG7WAXYLbOrSqAWpEUMM5zb96GdvPI173mj\/s1500\/Girl.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1500\" data-original-width=\"977\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjpTq4KlXBpIX7xa3tXs8xZthgkfX1GL3XfVp2-V-X8e9wOCY96acz0KMlBC0UfFRWYk_HRIXhfcMyhqd9g0xvlagevTyEk9JPqFjhxvq5lzr2WzCSGoylxlt_1MQ-lRMSkL_JlP3OG-aZ9CdQK2es5orH_7UG7WAXYLbOrSqAWpEUMM5zb96GdvPI173mj\/s320\/Girl.jpg\" width=\"208\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This<br \/>\nadaptation of Tova Friedman\u2019s <i>The Daughter of Auschwitz<\/i> is intended for<br \/>\nchildren*, to convey more of what it was like to be a child living through the<br \/>\nNazi persecution and murder of Jews, first in the Polish town where she lived<br \/>\nwith her parents, and then in Auschwitz itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">And it is superb. As history.<br \/>\nAs a piece of writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">The prose<br \/>\nis clear, simple and straightforward, and never, ever fails to put across the<br \/>\nhorror of what is happening, from the first arrival of the Nazis in the town, to the<br \/>\nestablishment of the ghetto, and then the final journey to, and survival in,<br \/>\nAuschwitz. The crash of boots in the street. The sound of gunshots. Barking<br \/>\ndogs straining at leashes and the stench of open latrines. Little Tova\u2019s<br \/>\ngradual, numbed acceptance of the daily deaths in her children\u2019s hut and how<br \/>\nshe\u2019d drag the bodies to the door for removal with all the thought we might<br \/>\ngive to disposing of an old newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">I\u2019ve read<br \/>\nmany books and watched just as many films and documentaries about the<br \/>\nHolocaust. Some are more horrific. Others are more analytical. But I\u2019ve never<br \/>\nread one that\u2019s told the story from the point of view of a child and done it<br \/>\nwith such skill and power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">Easily,<br \/>\neasily one of the best books I\u2019ve read all year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\">\u00a0*A shout out to<br \/>\nHilary Freeman, the adapter, whose name really out to have been on the cover<br \/>\ntoo.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read lots of great books for young readers, but this for me is one of the very best: using the simple, direct language of children&#8217;s literature to convey an almost unspeakable horror. And to convey it from the viewpoint of a child. 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