Stephen Dau's The Book of Jonas is a marvelous, lyrical debut that examines the effects of war on everyone involved. Dau weaves together the stories...
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I bought this for my 8-year-old grandson. He has enjoyed parts of it, but his father has read it cover-to-cover. The entries are short enough and the topics are mixed-up enough so that I expect something new will catch the fancy of a boy, while he's checking out something that he's already interested in.
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Knowing the fate of the author makes this book almost unbearably poignant. The developing relationships and understanding between the French and German "enemies" and the sometimes-deteriorating relationships of each group speaks strongly to the absurdity of war based on cultural, ethnic, and religious differences -- indeed, all wars, while at the same time showing the strength, and power to sustain, of human relationships.
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MsLizB, July 3, 2007
I bought this for my 8-year-old grandson. He has enjoyed parts of it, but his father has read it cover-to-cover. The entries are short enough and the topics are mixed-up enough so that I expect something new will catch the fancy of a boy, while he's checking out something that he's already interested in.(25 of 47 readers found this comment helpful)
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MsLizB, July 3, 2007
Knowing the fate of the author makes this book almost unbearably poignant. The developing relationships and understanding between the French and German "enemies" and the sometimes-deteriorating relationships of each group speaks strongly to the absurdity of war based on cultural, ethnic, and religious differences -- indeed, all wars, while at the same time showing the strength, and power to sustain, of human relationships.(30 of 57 readers found this comment helpful)