A review by desirosie
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski

4.0

This book was fascinating in its ability to create suspense and foreboding even though Szczypiorski tells you each character's post-war fate as he weaves his way through the story. To feel that suspense though, you have to know that the failed Warsaw Ghetto uprising is about to begin. What makes Irma Seidenman so appealing is personal to each of the individuals who play a crucial role in her fate. I may not have understood it personally, but I didn't need to, because the writing (and the translation) was more than convincing (although while she is a brunette on this cover, I don't understand). And of course, this book was about so much more than 36 tense hours in Warsaw in 1943; it was about Poland in the cruel 20th century.