so-soDespite many great quotes mostly from the epilogue, this book about the Holocaust AND Armenian Genocide was a bit of a muddle. The author listed largely unknown issues, events, and people in a commentary at the end of the book. It seems the author wanted to cover all of these, resulting in a long difficult-to-follow/understand plot. I accepted that I‘d be confused thruout and finished it anyway. #readingeurope2020 #turkey #litsyatoz #lettere
“The secrets are buried in the Vatican. Twenty years ago, the Vatican opened the Inquisition archives from the 16th century. We probably have only four hundred years to wait until the WWII archives are opened.”
How one of the characters described the Holocaust.
I love this, encouragement to a Holocaust survivor to write about his experience, to bear witness to what happened at Auschwitz: “It‘s not the facts that get through to people, it‘s getting to their humanity. Give me your words and we‘ll burn people‘s hearts with them.”
Around the time this book was set, The Hobbit would have just been published if I remember my Tolkien biography correctly.
“Years ago, a kind psychologist told me it would help to write about my experiences. I‘d kept a rather scattered diary since. When I couldn‘t write, I read. That was my only indulgence, buying books. Books in Hebrew, in English, even in German.”
Aren‘t we all, here on Litsy, engaging in a form of therapy when we read?
This is my next ebook, which I hope should work for #readingeurope2020 #Turkey.
Eleos: A Book of Trials and Secrets | 
