Gratitude: A Novel

by Joseph Kertes

Hardcover, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Collection

Publication

Thomas Dunne Books (2009), Edition: 1, 512 pages

Description

By the time World War II ends in 1945, over half a million Hungarian Jews will have been murdered. "Gratitude" tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost.

User reviews

LibraryThing member lynnytisc
This book is a real grabber. It deals with a jewish family in Hungary during World War II. Their daily struggles and perils and the character that they had to deal with them inspired me to learn more. Raoul Wallenberg figured greatly in the novel.
Incidentally, this book is from Dr. Elaine Newton's
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summer reading list and the only one of the 35 plus that my local library didn't have. I managed to get it from an inter-library loan and because it came from an outside library I had only 2 weeks to read it, and was in the middle of reading another selection form the list Union Atlantic. But because the book was such a page turner, I finished all almost 500 pages with 2 days to spare!
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Original language

English

Original publication date

2008

Physical description

512 p.; 9.59 inches

ISBN

0312585950 / 9780312585952
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