The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393327809 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Timothy Haugh said Alternate History. In view of full disclosure I will lead with the following comment: I am a bit of an amateur scholar of all things Anne Frank and so I am disposed towards liking something along the lines of a novel like this. That being said, if you accept the premise of this novel, then I think it is a very good one.. "Beautiful Read" according to Marina. This is a beautifully written story of a very ugly past. I was entranced not only by Feldman's storytelling, but also her prose. The book is both slow and momentous at the same time, with no major turns but also no slowing down of the emotions that the characters experience. The story of a young girl . "A Wonderful Imagining of What Might Have Been" according to Tamela Mccann. This is the story of Peter van Pels, known as Peter van Daan in Anne Frank's Diary, and what might have been had he actually survived the death camps. Feldman takes the idea and gives Peter a life in America, a life in which he attempts to deny his Jewishness by pretending he is a lapsed Christian. He
He thrives in the present, plans for the future, and has no past. But when The Diary of a Young Girl is published to worldwide acclaim and gives rise to bitter infighting, he realizes the cost of forgetting. Peter arrives in America, the land of self-creation; he flourishes in business, marries, and raises a family. Based on extensive research of Peter van Pels and the strange and disturbing life Anne Frank's diary took on after her death, this is a novel about the memory of death, the death of memory, and the inescapability of the past. This is the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding survived to become a man. "An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic."Dana Kennedy, New York Times On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely. Reading group guide included.
From Publishers Weekly Feldman (Lucy) pens a deeply affecting, unsettling look into the soul of a man whose attempts to bury his past cannot prevent it from seeping into his present life. . But when his wife begins reading Anne's newly published diary and later attends the play and the movie, Peter begins to spiral into flashbacks, paranoia and guilt as he questions who he is and where his responsibilities lie. All rights reserved. In Feldman's novel, Peter has emigrated to America and, as he promised Anne he would do, completely denied his persecution in the Holocaust and his identity as a Jew. A psychologically gripping tale, this will cause readers to think about the price of safety and the complex obligations of memory. The happiness and safety of his new life confounds him: he has a beautiful wife (who is h