Michael Eliastam

A beautiful story!

Revisado: 11-15-18

This is a gripping and heartbreaking memoir and story. I learned a lot about day-to-day life for this wonderful family. Details about The German deliberate and grinding destruction of the Jews is sobering, and of course frightening. in today’s environment. is so plausible to see how a fragile democracy could collapse into dictatorship.

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A superb novel of almost historical fiction

Revisado: 10-27-18

A really wonderful novel that reads like historical fiction. I could not stop listening. It often broke my heart learning about how the Nazi tyranny affected people at the individual level. The story is inspiring because the good people win in the end. The writing is excellent, as is the narration.

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Very strange narrator?

Revisado: 09-19-18

The narrator ruined it for me. He sounded almost robotic. His pronunciation of Israeli names of streets and people was stilted, often wrong. The story was difficult to follow, jumping around, with poor introduction to new chapters.

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A Brilliant Return To The Past!

Revisado: 10-12-17

The easiest to read book of all his works. A wonderful journey into the past, pulling it all together. Beautifully written, never a dull moment, no page skipping. And of course, very illuminating on the long history of his characters.

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A wonderful survey of everything

Revisado: 03-07-17

This is really a wonderful book, well written, and never dull. If you want to understand anything about the development of human beings, from the beginning of time, this is an ideal way to do it. The writing is clear the content balanced, and the individual examples are engaging. I did not want it to end!

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Engaging ethnic mystery in Israel

Revisado: 03-05-17

Beautifully narrated story of love, deception, mystery, politics, refugees, and family. Even the end is both satisfying and unsettling.

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And I'm in a story for our time

Revisado: 02-22-17

Yes I listen to this I heard two themes:
The terrible power of fear,
Resonance with what is starting to happen in America now. Immigrants and Muslims feel it now, and who will be next?
No wasted words in this short book. It is beautifully written and the performance is excellent.
This is creative nonfiction at its best.

The slow destruction of people is so sad.

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Charming and brutally honest

Revisado: 01-24-17

I Family story, but in the middle of the century
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ountry, after the war,

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READ IT!

Revisado: 01-14-17

This book should be read by anyone who makes decisions, and that means everyone! A great review of a friendship and collaboration that changed how we view decision-making for everyone from the individual, group, national and international perspectives. It is easy to read/listen, and a wonderful story, in fact it's heartbreaking in a way.

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To understand South Africa!

Revisado: 12-03-16

This book should be read by all white South Africans and any foreigner interested in understanding South Africa . He really explain apartheid from the black perspective in very simple terms, but very accurate. Some of it is funny and a lot of it is tragic, but ultimately he is the man of great intelligence, and tolerant of what apartheid did to all SA people especially those not white..

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