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One woman's quest for truth reveals a dark family secret long buried in Prague's Nazi past. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2015 -- Best Books in Fiction "Imagine Stephen King wrote Schindler's List..." Nikki Historical, Thriller, Literary, Holocaust] Every family holds to secrets, but some are far darker, reach deeper, and touch a rawer nerve than others. Vanesa Neuman is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and her childhood in the cramped intimacy of south Tel Aviv is shadowed by her parents' unspoken wartime experiences. The past for her was a closed book... until her father passes away and that book falls literally open. Vanesa must now unravel the mystery of the diary she has received--and the strange symbol within--at all costs. Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation and the Jewish Museum of Prague--Adolf Eichmann's "Museum of an Extinct Race"--Galerie is fast-paced historical fiction in the tradition of Tatiana De Rosnay's Sarah's Key. From Jerusalem's Yad V'Shem Holocaust research center, to the backstreets of Prague, and into the former "paradise ghetto" of Theresienstadt, Vanesa's journey of understanding will reveal a darker family past than she ever imagined--a secret kept alive for over half a century. PERFECT FOR BOOK CLUBS: A book club guide is included at the end of the story. Galerie by Steven Greenberg Evolved Publishing presents a thrilling work of historical fiction that examines how Holocaust horrors still resonate generations later, and how even deep wounds of betrayal can ultimately heal. DRM-Free] Books by Steven Greenberg: Enfold Me Galerie Moon Path (Coming 2017) More Great Thrillers from Evolved Publishing: Forgive Me, Alex by Lane Diamond Shatter Point by Jeff Altabef Whispers of the Dead by C.L. Roberts-Huth Red on the Run by K.M. Hodge No library descriptions found. |
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Vanesa Neuman, an Israeli historian and daughter of a Holocaust survivor gets her hands on her father’s journal after his death. In the journal she finds stories of long lost people and strange symbols.
Vanesa starts digging about the meaning of the symbols, using the jounal, Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum of Prague as her starting points. Along the way Vanesa overcomes many obstacles, physical and emotional to discover a deep buried family secret.
Galerie by Steven Greenberg is a very well written and researched book. Sometimes the narrative was a bit heavy, but I enjoyed it nonetheless and appreciated the author’s stylistic choices. Mr. Greenberg also knows how to tell a story, from a prose perspective as well as slowing down and simply telling a good, thought provoking, story.
The book moves between timelines and continents. Israel in the 1970s and 1990s (“present day”), and as wartime Europe, the US and other locations. The story and characters grow and become more intricate as the story unfolds, building up to a satisfying end.
The novel explores the Holocaust from an original point of view and does not shy from addressing issues which are easy to gloss over (treatment of Holocaust survivors after the war in Israel, for example). This is an intriguing book which will certainly holds the reader’s interest.
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