The List: A Novel

By Martin Fletcher

Book Overview

Anti-Semitism sweeps across the streets of London even as the world learns of the atrocities of the Holocaust. As Edith and Georg desperately search for surviving family members, they struggle to stay afloat in a world riddled with terrorism, assassination attempts, and fear.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312606923
• ISBN13: 9780312606923
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Worth a read

I can truthfully say that it wasn't the best book I've ever read, but it certainly was worth reading. Even though I'd put The List down for several days without reading it, the story and characters stuck in my mind. Then I'd pick it up again and be immersed in the world of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. Perhaps I always simply thought that once the Jews were rescued from the death camps, their problems were over. There! That's done. Now let's move on. The thought that maybe their hell just continued in another form - persistent antisemitism in their new rescuing country, nightmares of events in the camps that tortured them, searching endlessly for any sign, any word, of the existence of a beloved relative who might have survived the camps - never entered my mind until I read The List. And I was incensed by the British trying to keep the Jews out of Palestine, out of their homeland. Even now, a couple of months later as I write this, tears come to my eyes for the strength and courage of the characters of The List (who, I suspect, were closely related to the author). Maybe it WAS the best book I've ever read. It certainly continues to haunt me.