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A review by amyegbert
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
4.0
What a unique reading experience! This book is truly beautiful and I suspect I could spend many more hours just looking at the images in it and gain deeper meaning to the story.
I was surprised to find little snippets of this book really relatable despite so much being foreign to me. It added much needed nuance and deeper understanding of what it must have been like to be a German during WWII, and I am amazed by the author's ability to articulate the generational shame and worry and curiosity in a way that felt very easy to approach.
The art and photographs have been so carefully collected and displayed that I felt sometimes guilty for simply reading words and turning the page, but even the text-heavy pages are beautiful and inviting.
I will be thinking about these ideas for a long time I think.
I was surprised to find little snippets of this book really relatable despite so much being foreign to me. It added much needed nuance and deeper understanding of what it must have been like to be a German during WWII, and I am amazed by the author's ability to articulate the generational shame and worry and curiosity in a way that felt very easy to approach.
The art and photographs have been so carefully collected and displayed that I felt sometimes guilty for simply reading words and turning the page, but even the text-heavy pages are beautiful and inviting.
I will be thinking about these ideas for a long time I think.