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the great disorder of wartime Berlin, Lucia MullerRossi was an unofficial star: mistress to an Ambassador, the whole world to her young son, and guardian of all the lovely things her Jewish friends were forced to leave behind as they took the trains tothe death camps.
Sixty years later, one of those fine pieces sits for sale in the window of Lucia's antiques shop and its true owner happens to pass by, In that moment, a whole lifetime of silence cracks open and Lucia's family face the wrenching duty of examining a past almost too horrifying to remember, Yet another book club tedious read, I couldn't care less about Lucia the smuggler, her son Nicholas, or her granddaughter Helen, I did get one good quote out of it: "They were a closed society, not ready even for a biological intruder", Apt for childless couple who choose to be that way, Another one I gave up on, It

looks back at WWII in Europe in short, choppy sections made up of short, choppy sentences, and with little sense of story line, It starts out so well, but the later half of the book is unreadable, No praise for this book, The writer really gave up half way through, based on true stories of berliners secreting fine art out of germany to switzerland, then selling said meissens, picassos, etc, . and making millions. this is the story of one such woman, and her family, and those that try to bring her to justice, its a good story, but i don't prefer author pye's style of "reportage" rather than narrative, that said, this is a significant novel and will be around for many long centuries years, let us hope, Michael Pye's underrated gift as a writer is the ability to portray the wholenessgood, bad, ordinaryof character through vivid observation of human action, reaction, and gesture, He makes you feel the very heart of humanness struggling to make personal autobiography meaningfulpalatable evenin the face of the past's hard truths, Appassionante solo nelle ultimepagine, in cui si riesce finalmente a capire il senso di tutto il libro, Molto confusionario e superficiale, viene raccontata una vicenda molto forte senza però entrare nei particolari, anche i personaggi sono solo abbozzati e non ben delineati, per questo non sono riuscita ad amare od odiare nessuno di loro, forse solo il povero Nicholas, che è stato l'unico capace di commettere un'azione eclatante in un appiattimento generale.

Il titolo prometteva bene, . . A woman whose antiques business was based on selling items left in her care during WWII is confronted by a stranger who recognizes one of the items as her own.
Wartime Berlin, a rather unscrupulous Italian woman married to a Swiss soldier with a German son, A twisty jigsaw puzzle which eventually falls neatly into place, eh the book seemed to be in need of some editing, It didn't flow and lots of parts were just clunky in both dialouge and pace, It seemed to have the potential to be very interesting especially being based on a true events the main character was based off a real person but for some reason, it just didn't work.
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La storia sembra interessante, per la protagonista Pye si è ispirato a Andreina SchweglerTorré, la ladra d'arte che depredava gli ebrei durante la guerra.

Lucia la protagonista ha avuto una vita ricca e tranquilla in Svizzera quando una donna riconosce nel suo negozio di antiquariato un suo tavolino,
Il libro è lento, i personaggi non sono ben delineati, la storia è così sgranata che è difficile capire chi è il buono e chi il cattivo, Solo nelle ultimepagine si capisce che Lucia non solo si dedicava ai furti d'arte a discapito degli ebrei ma anche alla delazione e al mercimonio del proprio corpo.
Secondo la sua mente veniva fatto tutto per il figlio, in realtà è la vittoria dell'amoralità,
Il libro comunque non decolla, i personaggi sono scialbi, inconsistenti,
Assolutamente sconsigliata la lettura, I think it was a great interpretation of what happened in the black market in Berlin and throughout Europe during WW, Had some language in it but not too much, came with the times I think,

Not as exciting as I hoped BUT still interesting to read and possibly purchase later in the future What a snore, Anticlimactic, blah. The whole story is given away in the dustjacket,

I want the last hour I spent finishing it back! This novel takes place both in the present and in World War II, It lent itself to some good discussion points for my book club, Maybe I should clarify and say that theis really for aboutof the novel, I couldn't put it down at first, but the ending was anticlimatic, Yet ANOTHER one of those books that has a fabulous cover, but anything but fabulous insides, The pitfall of this book, for me at least, was the marketing, I was expecting a firstperson narrative of events in's Berlin detailing a woman's life before and during WWII, and the actions she takes in response, I wanted her story I ached for her story throughout the entire novel, I wanted her motives, her thoughts, her actions, her circumstances, Instead, I received a roundabout novel about a granddaughter attempting to rid herself of inherited shame, I could not share completely in her outrage since the circumstances of the's were never spelled out, The characters were mute on the subject and it was very frustrating to be left to assume what happened,

The story of Berlin and Lucia's crimes is finally told in the last fifty pages, It is interesting. It is riviting. It is heartwrenching and emotional, It does not however make up for the rest of the book, DNF

Het zal door het audioboek gebeuren komen dat ik dit boek niet heb vervolgd, Al na een paar minuten kon ik me niet concentreren op het verhaal, A deep look into how survival fuels greed's grip, The past does not stay the past when it is ignored, instead it becomes a hidden prison that drives us to hide from the truth of living with our imperfections.
Fascinating read that actually gave me pause to notice the ways what one experiences is a part of what one becomes, . . but the final chapter is still being written in our lives by what we choose now, this book is based lightly on a true event in history, a woman born of swiss/italian decent is entrusted with peoples monies and valuable during the war for safe keeping, She takes these pieces and benefits over time selling and reselling them herself but never forwarding the profits back to those owners or the families of the original owners.
It comes back to haunt her in her old age after the war is long over, curious writing style. The whole story is given away with the book jacket, thought it was anticlimactic. An interesting story about an ethically challenging topic, However, the author writes in an obtuse way that seems intended to infuse the story with depth, but instead just makes the descriptions of everything that happens somewhat vague.
A quietly understated book that gradually gains momentum, until the final resolutions resonate like bomb shaken Berlin, An elderly woman sees a piece of her past in another old womans store and sets up of events that force all the characters to evaluate their roles in WWII and the consequences of decisions made or not made.
Thought provoking , and not cliched, this book forces one to ask what they would have done in the same circumstances, We finally must conclude that evil, sugarcoated is evil nonetheless, I'm interested in our contemporary struggle to return art and family treasures lost or stolen during the Nazi regime, Searching for reading material on the subject, this book cropped up in the library card catalogue,

It is a chilling novel that centers on the struggle to survive in Nazi Germany and the painful memories that linger decades later,

For me, this was not so much a book I sought to enjoy, but a subject I am eager to understand a bit more, Pye's novel offers some perspective on how Jewish families may have come to part with their most valued possessionsand what their expectations were regarding their return, It also provided a glimse into the world of the "dealer" who received the art and antiques,

It is a chilling story about loss and survival anger and memory, The story provided me some additional insight into the horror of the Nazi regime and the grave importance of never forgetting what happened, .