Overall Rating
4
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thought provoking
Date: August 18, 2009
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"I received this book from S&S for review and have greatly enjoyed reading it.
Our local library book group meets tonight and we are going to review our summer reads (we take the summer off) and hopefully get some ideas for books to read in the coming year.
I will recommend "Songs for the Butcher's Daughter".
"Songs" actually traces two stories - one about a Jewish man who writes poetry, and his life, loves and crimes and a second story about his translator - a young man who passes as Jewish in order to work in a warehouse that saves books written in Yiddish from being destroyed. He too, has a love story and makes some mistakes in his life.
The book is also about fate, and a lot of things that work together to make the story work out the way it does.
As well as being well written, the book is interesting and informative.
I would recommend it to anyone."
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Overall Rating
4
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Brilliantly Written
Date: June 20, 2009
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"Having been raised as one of the few Catholic schoolgirls in an all Jewish high school in London, this book brought back passionate memories on the strong upswelling of feelings young yiddish go through during young love, and it's even stronger cross connection with a strict culture of tradition. Set in the beginning of the 19th century, Peter Manseau gives us imaginative glimpses of both Russia and and up-and-coming Baltimore."
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