Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
Abandoned by her mother, who-left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her stepmother, cooped up in a cellar, starved,...
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Abandoned by her mother, who-left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her stepmother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. The Bonfire of Berlin is a searing account of her survival. Even alter the Russian victory the
survivors could not look forward to safety but rather to pillage and rape as the victorious troops stampeded through the broken city. It was only after Schneider's father returned
from the war that her life began to return to some kid of normality. This shocking book evokes the reality of life in a wartime city in all
its brutality and deprivation, yet also demonstrates humankind's capacity for hope in the darkest of circumstances.