Reviews

And the Rat Laughed by Nava Semel

elangowitz's review against another edition

3.0

Israeli fiction's greatest hits: biblical references, Holocaust, and the themes of memory vs story. Always the best.

laurelinwonder's review against another edition

5.0

Well, after hearing about this book multiple times, I found a decently priced copy (difficult to do!) that happened to be a signed copy! This book will probably always remain at the top of my list of most affecting books that have anything to do with the Holocaust. It's of course, so much more than that, but to give it some sort of description. Written in prose, poems, diary, and sci-fi this book talks about memory & the power of forgetting in ways that I am still, and probably will continue to mull over for a very long time. This was an emotionally difficult book, so well written, and thought provoking that I found myself annotating in a book I read for pleasure. I feel like I will be thinking about this book for a very long time, and decompressing from the experience. I have to say this is one of the most powerful, complex books I have read all year, and highly recommend it.