Bronstein's Children

By Jurek Becker

Book Overview

Univ of Chicago

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226041271
• ISBN13: 9780226041278
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A complex, compelling read

Becker's Bronstein's Children is (to use a cliche) a compulsively readable narrative. Becker dramatically illustrates the complex relationship between the older and younger generations of German Jews--the older having lived through Hitler's Final Solution and the younger not understanding why the past constantly haunts them. The chapters alternate between the past and the present, showing that history pervades the very being of those Jews living in Germany after the horrors of World War II. The past is omnipresent both for those who lived through it and those who did not but must live with its consequences and try to understand it.