European War 3
Games and Entertainment
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In European War 3 you will be a commander leading your soldiers to fight for resources, promote...
jogos educativos para aprender a ler e escrever
Education and Games
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Você quer o mais recente método para as crianças aprenderem a ler e escrever? Um método que...
Iqra' : Arabic language alphabet learning
Education and Utilities
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Arabic language learning in an easy way for every age. This first volume is focused on alphabet. You...
Grocery list. Easy shopping list
Shopping and Productivity
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"Happiness is not in money but in Shopping" said Marilyn Monroe. Comfortable and functional app ...
Wish - Shopping Made Fun
Lifestyle and Shopping
6.4
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Wanna save big? Over 300 million smart & thrifty shoppers have discovered Wish! Our mobile mall app...
Rum & Pirates
Tabletop Game
Rum and Pirates is a relatively simple movement and collection game, known in German as Um Ru(h)m...
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Those Who Are Loved
10.0
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'Victoria Hislop's view of history in her novels is, like the writer herself, a compassionate and...
Historical Fiction Modern Greek History
The Uninvited
8.0
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From the award-winning author of In the Shadow of Blackbirdscomes a stunning new novel a masterfully...
ClareR (6037 KP) rated Send For Me in Books
Sep 7, 2021
This was a different take on other books set at this time, and I liked that about it very much. I haven’t read many books about those who managed to escape the Nazi regime and immigrate to safe countries before the Holocaust really began. But it’s no less saddening for that. Annalise desperately misses her parents, and life is so utterly different in the US.
The story swaps between Annalise and her granddaughter, Clare, whose life couldn’t have been any more different. Clare has the much more liberated life of an American woman - whether that’s what she really wants, remains to be seen.
I really enjoyed seeing the juxtaposition between a 1930s immigrant and a modern young woman. Annalise’s fear of being in a big city with no English is palpable - I panicked along with her. It must be so scary to move somewhere that’s completely different to your own life experience, and not even have a common language - something that people have always had to endure for their own safety throughout the ages.
This is a really moving novel, made more so when I learnt that the letters between Annalise and her mother Klara were real - just that the names were changed.