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A review by edenseve63
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
3.0
A sensitive look at how war and political policy have the most profound effect on the most vulnerable, women and children. In The Wind Knows my Name, Isabelle Allende draws together the children of the Kindertransport that evacuated Jewish children from Nazi Germany to the safety of England and the Latin American children separated from their parents at the U.S. border under the Trump Administration. Though the situations are quite different between the Second World War and the current border crisis, sadly children through no fault of their own experience a trauma unlikely to be resolved.
An interesting and important story to tell, sadly it got bogged down in contrived circuitous plot lines artificially inserted to draw it all together, resulted in a clumsiness of less seasoned writers. I expected a better flow from Allende, who was always a master storyteller. 3 stars.
An interesting and important story to tell, sadly it got bogged down in contrived circuitous plot lines artificially inserted to draw it all together, resulted in a clumsiness of less seasoned writers. I expected a better flow from Allende, who was always a master storyteller. 3 stars.