The World That We Knew Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Alice Hoffman
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
703

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman Book Summary

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On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival.

“[A] hymn to the power of resistance, perseverance, and enduring love in dark times…gravely beautiful…Hoffman the storyteller continues to dazzle.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

At the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Her desperation leads her to Ettie, the daughter of a rabbi whose years spent eavesdropping on her father enables her to create a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Hanni’s daughter, Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked.

What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never-ending.

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Book Name The World That We Knew
Genre Literary Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 7.29 MB

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The World That We Knew. A story revealing the compassion within us all. The danger of those who will release the ugliness within us all. A word for this time, a caution for our future. A beautiful story.

Great. I read a lot of historical fiction and many times the books can feel similar. This book was really unique and beautiful in its storytelling approach to such a terrible time in our world history.

Beautifully powerful. When I was younger I devoured everything written by Alice Hoffman. I loved the way magic was infused into all her stories. This one stands apart from her other work, it is perhaps her greatest writing.

Another fantastic book by Alice Hoffman. Alice Hoffman’s whimsical writing is intertwined brilliantly into this story of Holocaust sufferers. Another book of hers I couldn’t put down.

The World that We Knew. Alice Hoffman has written another lovely hard to put down novel. Her writing is always spare and moving and her characters have bold spirits. The magic that unites all her books always surprises but never seems out of place.

Be still my heart. I wish I could give this book more than five stars. It was written with magic. Every character had value that touched me. I’m not going to talk in depth about the book. Just….Read it.

Thought Provoking. A story of love, life, and death. And, bravery. It challenges what we think we know about religion.

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Restoring the courage to live in a terrifying and beautiful world. This book ripped me apart as it stitched my heart back together.

Heartbreaking and Hopeful. I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman is a story of the Holocaust. I think that sometimes you can tell more truths in a fairy tale than you can in a non-fiction book and that is true in this book. It brings to light the goodness and the evil, the hope and the despair that was Berlin and France during World War 2. The story begins in Berlin, Lea’s mother aware that the world is greatly changing and that it is not a safe place for her daughter but unable to abandon her crippled mother she causes a golem to be created to protect her daughter. The golem named Ava is charged with protecting Lea and keeping her safe through the war. They journey to Paris and then to the French countryside over the course of the war. Their story is told in a series of interconnecting tales of love between a parent and their child, between brothers, between sisters and between men and women, and is one of much heartbreak and great hope. I enjoyed this book very much and highly recommend reading it. Publishing Date September 24, 2019 #NetGalley #TheWorldWeKnew #AliceHoffman #HolocaustStories #fairytales #SimonandSchuster #Bookstagram #HistoricalFicton

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The The World That We Knew book written by Alice Hoffman was published on 24 September 2019, Tuesday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 703 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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