What the Night Sings

Posted on 08 September 2017 by Vesper Stamper

For fans of The Book Thief and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes a lushly illustrated novel about a teen Holocaust survivor, who must come to terms with who she is and how to rebuild her life.After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally liberated, only to find herself completely alone Without her Papa, her music, or even her true identity, she must move past the task of surviving and onto living her life In the displaced persons camp where she is staying, Gerta meets Lev, a fellow teen survivor who she just might be falling for, despite her feelings for someone else With a newfound Jewish identity she never knew she had, and a return to the life of music she thought she lost forever, Gerta must choose how to build a new future. Free Read Kindle ePUB What the Night Sings By Vesper Stamper – kino-fada.fr Am I your friend Then trust me, you want to read this book Don t read it or buy it for the wonderful weight of paper or the font or the smell of ink They are all wonderfully apt choices Read it for the journey your heart will make with Gerta Read it for remembering a piece of history too oft relegated to statistics and numbers too mind boggling to comprehend Read it to trace your own humanity This is not only good young adult fiction, it is good literature The story is an imm...Equally a love letter to the power of music as well as a Holocaust remembrance Lyrical, evocative language is the real strength of this book, though the story itself is engaging, too, though horrific, because of what happened to the Jews, which it does not shy away from discussing It s almostpoignant because the heartbreaking details are reported so matter of factory, while the hopes and dreams if there are any left to have are presented so magically, that that juxtaposition makes the Equally a l...Read our full review on Hypable What the Night Sings doesn t feel like a rehash of the many other books of the genre In fact, it feels so personal and accurately portrayed that it could almost be a true story.Historically, music had a presence in many concentration camps during the Holocaust Used both as an act of humiliation by the guards to the prisoners when forcing them to sing and chant during punishments, and in ameaningful yet also tragic way an act for survival.I personally do n Read our full review on Hypable What the Night Sings doesn t feel like a rehash of the many other books of the genre In fact, it feels so personal and accurately portrayed that it could almost be a true story.Historically, music had a presence in many concentration camps during the Holocaust Used both as an act of humiliation by the guards t...Copy provided by the publisherGerta lives with her father, a viola player, and her step mother, who is a famous singer For reasons she doesn t fully understand, she no longer goes to school, but is tutored at home Eventually, her father stops going to work, and he and Gerta are sent to a concentration camp The father manages to keep his viola, but it ends up in Gerta s care, which helps her to survive, since she plays in various prison orchestras Her real love is singing, but the horr...I really liked What the Night Sings I really liked how it was set after the camp was freed with relevant flashbacks instead of about the time in the camp The only thing that bothered me was how the Maria thing wasn tdeveloped.Review to come.What an extraordinarily beautiful and unique book about the Holocaust this one is While many books about WWII cover the events leading up to the Holocaust as well as the tragedies of the concentration camps, few seem to give much attention to the aftermath, which this one does Gerta Rauschn is sixteen when the story begins, and while others around her are dying of typhus, she is fortunate to be healthy enough to survive when the British arrive to liberate the inhabitants of Bergen Belsen Conce What an extraordinarily beautiful and unique book about the Holocaust this one is While many books about WWII cover the events leading up to the Holocaust as well as the tragedies of the concentration camps, few seem to give much attention to the aftermath, which this one does Gerta Rauschn is sixteen when the story begins, ...This book tells the story of a Holocaust survivor Although many similar books end with liberation of the concentration camps, this new YA novel delves into the history of what happened after The main character s journey is incredibly moving, and the magnificent prose and illustrations bring the story to life I never imagined that someone could release such a new and vital Holocaust book in 2018, but here it is.This story is both specific and universal It deals with the daily life challenges This book tells the story of a Holocaust survivor Although many similar books end with liberation of the concentration camps, this new YA novel delves into the history of what happened after The main character s journey is incredibly moving, and the magnificent prose and illustrations bring the story to life I never imagined that someone could release such a new and vital Holocaust book in 2018, but here it is.This story is both specific and universal It deals with the daily life challenges and terrors that the character faced in concentration camps and what she did afterward, but it also deals with a larger issue what do you do when life goes off script I found this fascinating In many similar books, the focus is on survivor s guilt, and although that is a very significant theme, this book serves a unique purpose by exploring how one can reshape their identity and dreams after losing everything The author s note in the back tells about the creator s own experience los...This is a book about the Holocaust, which like Night, should be read by everyone It s about a girl who is a musician She and her father are taken to the camps, where he dies, but she manages to survive The story starts when she is liberated by the British and flashes back to her early years and then continues to tell the story of what her life is like after the Holocaust is over This is an important book because most of the young people I talk with think the Holocaust was over when the liber This is a book about the Holocaust, which like Night, should be read by everyone It s about a girl who is a musician She and her father are taken to the camps, where he dies, but ...This is a gripping book that manages to capture the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust concentration camps and its brutal aftermath in the tale of an isolated teenage girl To say that it is moving is an understatement However, there is also t...

08 September 2017

Vesper Stamper