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ClareR (6037 KP) rated The Hiding Game in Books

Sep 8, 2019 (Updated Sep 9, 2019)  
The Hiding Game
The Hiding Game
Naomi Wood | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
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A completely engrossing novel about Weimar, Bauhaus and complicated relationships
The Hiding Game is set mostly in the period between the two World Wars at the Bauhaus art school. This was a time of great change in Germany, both politically and artistically. Paul Beckermann starts his study at Bauhaus in 1922, and forms one of a group of six friends. He falls in love with the unobtainable Charlotte, a young woman from Czechoslovakia, but she loves Jenö, who in turn is loved by Paul’s best friend Walter. It seems like an impossible love triangle (or even a square?!). These strong feelings lead to betrayal in a time that it was very easy to utterly destroy lives. The six friends drift apart, mainly out of necessity (Bauhaus was not liked at all by the traditionalists in the National Socialist party), but also they just couldn’t be together anymore.

Paul, as an older man living in England, looks back at this period in his life and how it went tragically wrong. Not all of the six friends were as fortunate as he was.

It’s a heartbreaking and also a suspenseful novel. Someone with only a limited knowledge of this period will know of the kind of tragedy that could befall people then. Paul’s guilt and sadness are palpable throughout the book, and I really felt for him. This isn’t really a book where the characters find some sort of forgiveness for themselves - there is none to find. Terrible things happened, and the survivors had to find a way to live with themselves afterwards.

I loved the details about Bauhaus. I did some study on it during my German degree, and it filled in some gaps in my knowledge (there are quite a few gaps to fill when you did that degree 25 years ago!), and I’m always on the lookout for books set in Germany, especially those with a good helping of history (this has it in spades!). And for me, this really didn’t disappoint. I loved it, and I’ll be recommending it to friends (ex-German degree friends as well!).

Many thanks to NetGalley and Picador for my copy of this wonderful book.
  
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Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Hope: A Tragedy in Books

Jan 15, 2018  
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Hope: A Tragedy
Shalom Auslander | 2012
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8.0 (3 Ratings)
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This book tells the story of a couple who buys an old farmhouse in upstate New York to esacape the craziness of life in NYC. The husband has major issues...the basis of which begin with his father leaving & the fact that his mother is a Jew who was born & raised in America. Yet she still manages to convince herself that she suffered through concentration camps in Nzi occupied Germany. The story gets interesting when Sol discovers an old, stooped over woman living in their attic. Big deal? Well, yeah. She claims to be Anne Frank.
Sounds like a great idea for a story, but to me it fell flat. At times I was interested & couldn't wait to see what would happen. Then it would just sort of ramble on for page upon page of nothing really happening. To me, the author was working way too hard at an attempt to be deep & philosophical. That ruined the promise of an intriguing plot line. It was okay, but I wouldn't read it again.