A review by ronanmcd
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof by Jiří Weil

4.0

What a strange way to put together a book. It lurches to a narrative halt once the statue referred to in the future is dealt with. Then it commences a grim recount of loosely related lives of Jews in occupied eastern Europe.
The stories are well crafted, descriptive, but abruptly so. But the way they interweave without relation to each other is just odd. Not that that is a bad thing.
Aside from that, the book is as harrowing as you would expect, considering it's provenance and subject.