A fascinating document

A fascinating document

The dress of Hannah (Paperback)

Customer Review

Pascale Hugues has chosen to tell us the story of his street in Berlin, since its construction in 1904 until today, about very dicey and had all the chances BE boring possible; this is in any case that i thought when reading the back cover.
Then, from the first pages, one is struck by the quality of writing, the accuracy of vocabulary and impeccable style of the author, which comes from the first chapter to fascinate us about it. This is the destiny of QuĂ  through several dune side street neighboring Berlin - which nest dailleurs unnamed throughout the book - it tells us actually brilliantly history of Germany on more than a century.
What is remarkable, this is what succeeds in making interesting the results of its extremely comprehensive and accurate historical research. Even the lists of names of various contractors or neighbors, tenants complaint letters, many details prior surly, become elements of all the nostalgia that emanates from this book, beautifully written.
The author has had the merit of finding and meeting many of the former inhabitants of this street, German Jews who fled the Nazis in the United States or Israel, Germans who remained in Berlin, and for many of them, their descendants . All these lives intersected at a moment in history, in the same street, but time passes and the street continues its destiny with other people. The few photographs of old neighbors found by the author, witnesses of a bygone past, are really touching.
We feel that Pascale Hugues sest passionate about his subject and what has developed a particular fondness for his former neighbors and dadoption country. His enthusiasm is contagious. We would love to be able to order such a book him on the street of his childhood.

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March 29
A novel that rocks! Rank: 5/5
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