All my puny sorrows book review5/20/2023 To her credit, the author doesn’t flinch from describing the depravity of the SS in Auschwitz and the unimaginable suffering of their victims-no gauzy evasions here, as in Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In 1944, just ahead of the arrival of Russian troops, Lale and Gita separately leave the concentration camp and experience harrowingly close calls. Meanwhile, despite overwhelming odds, Lale and Gita are able to meet privately from time to time and become lovers. Through female prisoners who catalog the belongings confiscated from fellow inmates, Lale gains access to jewels, which he trades to a pair of local villagers for chocolate, medicine, and other items. Lale proves himself an operator, at once cagey and courageous: As the Tätowi erer, he is granted special privileges and manages to smuggle food to starving prisoners. Eventually, the attraction becomes mutual. When the Tätowierer, as he is called, meets fellow prisoner Gita Furman, 17, he is immediately smitten. There, he assumes the heinous task of tattooing incoming Jewish prisoners with the dehumanizing numbers their SS captors use to identify them. An unlikely love story set amid the horrors of a Nazi death camp.īased on real people and events, this debut novel follows Lale Sokolov, a young Slovakian Jew sent to Auschwitz in 1942.
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