![]() ![]() While the communal experience of war left me breathless and teary at times, once the plot moved from it, the personal struggles seemed underdeveloped, becoming rushed or simply abandoned while new conflicts stirred up. ![]() But, I felt at the end that the background had taken priority over the individual characters. The small village inhabitants – their rivalry, small and big conflicts, acts of bravery or cowardice, etc. Ursula Hegi strength is her power to transport us into this German community during the years from the end of WWI until the years just after WWII. It has been a while since a book has enthralled me the way this book has, and yet I am struggling to give it anything more than 3 stars. ![]()
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