Day After Night: A Novel
by Diamant, Anita
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Book Summary Information
Author: Diamant, AnitaEdition: Kindle Edition
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Kindle Book
Published: 2009-09-03
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Scribner
Book Reviews of Day After Night: A Novel
Book Review: Disappointing!
Summary: 2 Stars
While I have read many books chronicling the Holocaust, I know almost nothing about the period after the war and what happened to the many people who were liberated from the concentration camps. It was for this reason that I really looked forward to Day after Night by Anita Diamant. And perhaps because the author had written the almost perfect beach Bible book, The Red Tent, and is a well known writer on Judaic topics, I thought this would be a really good read. Unfortunately I was really disappointed reading this book and finished it by skimming it.
Why, in my opinion did this book fail, and why the two star rating from me. To begin with, the writing itself was very ordinary and at times I though some of my high school students could have done a better job. And then there was the failure of the characters to make any impression on me. The characters were never fully developed or even poignant in view of these character's lives in recent years. Finally I never visualized what the camp at Atlit looked like except for the barbed wire exterior. For all of theswe reasons I felt the book was rushed and never fully rang true. Maybe my expectations were just too high for this author but I'm hoping, in the future, I will enjoy a well written book that she writes.
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Anita Diamant's?story of four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, who find friendship, love, and salvation in a post-war British camp in Palestine.Historical Books
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