The puppet boy of Warsaw
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Ratings2
Average rating4.5
THE PUPPET BOY OF WARSAW is the story of Mika, a Jewish boy who inherits a coat from his grandfather and discovers a puppet in one of its many secret pockets. He becomes a puppeteer in the Warsaw ghetto, but when his talent is discovered, Mika is forced to entertain the occupying German troops instead of his countrymen. It is also the story of Max, a German soldier stationed in Warsaw, whose experiences in Poland and later in Siberia's Gulag show a different side to the Second World War. As one of Mika's puppets is passed to the soldier, a war-torn legacy is handed from one generation to another. Gripping and heartbreaking in equal measure, THE PUPPET BOY OF WARSAW is a story of courage and redemption that will appeal to anyone who enjoyed THE BOOK THIEF or THE BOY WITH STRIPED PYJAMAS, and marks the arrival of an important new talent.
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I have now read this book 2 times in a short amount of time.
The book is one of the best I have ever read.
The author maneged to capture the fear and horrible ways that Jewdish people had to live with in a great way.
But in the book there was also some kind of hope that grown when the dolls started to get into the picture. And the way the hope growed around the theather with ‘the prince', monkey and doctor.
You also get a view on how the German's were treted after the war in a unike way. There is not that many book who focus or more then mention that the soldiers were threaten badly.
