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Adressat unbekannt

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

4.29 AVERAGE

bblizz72's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jencunn2024's review against another edition

5.0

“But there is another realm where we can always find something true, the fireside of a friend, where we shed our little conceits and find warmth and understanding, where small selfishnesses are impossible and where wine and books and talk give a different meaning to existence. There we have made something that no falseness can touch. We are at home.”

This novel is short but powerful. It tells the story of an overseas friendship over time. And it provides a brief, yet accurate history of the start of WWII and Hitler’s power in a personal narrative. You might be reading along and think you know the history and you know the plot. Just when you get settled in and you’re comfortable it punches you in the gut.

evangelines_girlfriend's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

babypink_'s review against another edition

5.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

maigirl's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

siria's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense

A short, sharp work that—for something written before the outbreak of the Second World War and by someone an ocean away from Germany—is highly insightful and prescient. Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's novella is written in the form of letters between two business partners: one a German Jew living in America, the other a Gentile who has moved back to Germany just as the Nazis come to power and who becomes an ardent follower of Hitler. Their relationship swiftly deteriorates. Kressmann Taylor's writing isn't subtle, but her point is clear and irrefutable: in a fascist society, words kill.