8. East of Time - Jacob G Rosenberg

From the blurb, this story sounded like many others that have been published – Nazi’s discriminating against a group of people, that person’s fight through it and obviously their survival to tell the tale. However, upon starting it, I realised that it just wasn’t that great. The book is written in small chapters, just 2-3 pages each, and each chapter is about a person that was in the ghetto with the author. It is effectively a book made up of very short stories. However, knowing that this person had obviously survived, I was interested in reading what had happened to him, how he survived, how he interacted with others. Unfortunately, throughout the book, there is very little story to follow; it is broken up so much that it becomes hard to follow and quite disappointing.

Having read many other books of this subject, I thought that it would be another interesting read. What I found was a very disappointing and uninformative book, with so little information about what had happened and what their lives were like, that I actually became very bored while reading it. There are many other stories about this period of time that are much better.