This story is, as you probably have found out by now, a story that takes place in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during World War 2. It deals with very difficult subject mater and handles it very well. The Amazon description calls it a love story. Maybe it is, but I didn't see it as one. It is a lot more, and a lot of other things as well. I found it to be a testimony to a very dark time, a mystery, a story of friendship, and of madness. A tale of bravery and of insanity, of hope in a hopeless place. I found it disturbing and unbelievable, maddening and frightening.

I ended up really liking this book. It is dark and disturbing and unlike any story I have ever read. It takes work to keep up with all the German names and ranks of the characters but that effort is worth it. It also takes effort to keep up with the plot as three very different narrators tell their stories bit by bit with overlapping timelines. These three very different points of view give very interesting insight into the minds and actions of the characters. I won't give any of the plot away because I do not agree with that type of book review. I think the reader should get to find out things as they go.

I have been thinking about this book a lot after finishing it. The characters, their actions, the time in history it was based in, the madness... I fear ever having to look in such a mirror myself. I dread having to see what might be there.

I recommend this book to you, as well as to every person I know who reads.

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