Tell Me Another Morning by Zdena Berger - Review

Tell Me Another Morning
by Zdena Berger
Publisher: Paris Press
Publication Date: Apr 1, 2007 (reprint)
ISBN: 9781930464100
272 Pages
Autobiographical Novel


Publisher's Description:

Tell Me Another Morning is an autobiographical novel which depicts the knowledge of Tania, the 14 year-old vital an "ordinary" hold up in Prague until she is taken with her family to the Nazi thoroughness camps. Through Tania's eyes, Berger captures the claustrophobic uncertainty of the imprisonment, the powerlessness, as well as the the single after an additional degradation imposed by the Nazis. Berger skilfully weaves together Tania's teenaged concerns with the ascendancy of hold up in the camps: her brother's early murder; the friends who help her survive; her mother's decision to stay as well as die with her father rsther than than be transported with Tania to an additional thoroughness camp; her tentative and, during times, frightening relationships with young group as well as the guards.


Quote:

Sometimes upon Sundays we demeanour during my hands, when they have been purify as well as try to recall if they were different before. But we cannot remember. we do not recollect anything of my body from before. It is as if my eyes were regularly as well large for the tight face, the neck as well prolonged to the touch, the shoulders ending in these pointy bones, the breasts regularly as flat as my back.

There will be an additional year, may be an additional bunk. But we consider which the single day it must end. we consider about it - bashful with the suspicion - as if not to destroy the possibility which is not nonetheless there, though will be. That is because we keep getting up in the morning.

Page 161


My Opinion:

Tell Me Another Morning is unlike any alternative Holocaust novel we have! read, i n partial because couple of place names have been used, as well as also because it is written in benefaction tense, which both give it kind of an impressionistic feeling. In only the couple of short chapters the reader is provided with the brief glimpse of what Tania's hold up is similar to prior to wearing the yellow star. My theory is which the writer longed for to uncover how the normal period in her hold up became out of concentration as well as some-more of the distant memory, while her time outlayed in the camps were clear in their abhorrence as well as seemed to stretch upon infinitely.

For example, when Tania moves to what I'm assuming was the ghetto, it is simply called "the walled town" in the section title. Here is her outline of the town:

I see the town now which will be ours. The mill walls pull up against the sky, high above the low ditch. Walls in the circle which tighten in which town. Page 24
All of Tania's travels as well as hardships during various locations (work camp, thoroughness camps, etc.) have been described in the identical fashion. You know what they are, though we don't know the exact place or name of the camp.

Part of what this play upon words did for me was allow me to see the knowledge of the Holocaust survivor in the new light. It is in our inlet to want to tag as well as categorize, though by not meaningful the names of the camps, it takes your attention away from labels (like Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen) as well as focuses them solely upon the practice of the survivor.

Like any Holocaust memoir or novel, horrific events have been portrayed in the story. What we appreciated most about this book though, was the work of art of the friendships in in between the girls who stuck with any alternative as well as helped any alternative survive. It was also the cause for major tension in the story. Were Tania's friends going to survive? How most horrific practice as well as deprivations could they live through? It was al! so the a spect of the story we was most curious about when it came to questioning which parts of the story were fact as well as which were fiction. Thankfully there is an update from the writer during the finish of the book, in which she writes quickly about the little of the real people behind the characters in the story.

Every time we have suspicion about this book given we accomplished it, we have been struck by dual things: first which the story covers the four years which the writer outlayed in captivity. we have the tough time wrapping my thoughts around which kind of long-suffering. The second is the friendships in in between Tania as well as the dual girls with her in the camps - they were long-lasting in situations which could break detached the strongest of friends. we sorely wish which there would have been photos of the writer as well as her friends as well as family, though given this is the work of autobiographical novella we assimilate because they were not included.

I recommend Tell Me Another Morning to any one who is interested in Holocaust stories.

Rating: 4.5/5





*I received the free copy of this book for review.


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