What the critics thought of Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter, Caroline Moorehead’s A Bold and Dangerous Family and Al-Britannia, My Country: A Journey Through Muslim Britain by James Fergusson
Two lesser known aspects of the second world war were explored in fiction and non-fiction this month. Rachel Seiffert’s novel A Boy in Winter is “a deeply moving and … morally complex fictionalisation of the mass extermination of the Jewish community in a Ukrainian town”, wrote Lesley McDowell in the Sunday Herald. “What Seiffert does so well is to make us care immediately and passionately about the fates of every individual …read more
Source: Libya News Today
