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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. Wonderful character pieces all set in the same village (or shtetl-- a new word I learned) in a common time period. It was neat to read about various quotidian events from the perspectives of a variety of characters. Loved Misha the midwife!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before starting this review I read a few other reviews that shared my feelings.  I was charmed by this book of Polish shtettle life in the nineteenth century.  What I loved most about this tale was the way the story is woven together from the perspectives of the various characters.  Sometimes events...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30986568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read books about Jews in Europe during WWII, but I had never read about Jews as people with ordinary lives. This book is about a tiny Jewish village in Poland told in various voices of the women who live in this village. The customs, the rituals of birth and death, joys and sorrows their simp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53208997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a difficult book to read because of the jumping back and forth across time. There was a lot of repetition in order to help the reader determine where they were in time. I realized even as I read this that there was a point to writing this way, but it was still annoying and made for a slow r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49969651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Story of the families in a Jewish village in POland 1900s.  Great story really drawing me in to begin with. However, the method of telling the story from different perspectives--although original and interesting in theory--became tedious and tiresome]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find this book fascinating in its detail -- she's wonderful with detail of day to day life in the shtetls of turn-of-the-century Poland. Less satisfying with character development. An interesting read, but very cerebral...not emotionally gripping.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it, magical.  Very in depth on village jewish life back in the day, shows how incredibly interconnected these people were and how thier stories all affected one another.  Katy was right:)]]></body>
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    <review id="46405107">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I found a bit slow to start, could very well have been my state of mind. However, when I finished the book I actually missed the characters. If you find it slow, don't give up!!!]]></body>
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    <review id="46894617">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  It is a juicy read and a great shapshot of Jewish rural life in Eastern Europe in the late 19th century.]]></body>
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    <review id="67756202">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books about life in the shtetls of Europe. I felt like I was reading about my long lost ancestors.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to follow at first, but good intellectual book.  Interesting Jewish and Polish traditions from the 1800s.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a beautiful book.  I really enjoy &quot;Jewish literature&quot;, if you will.  I just feel tied to it at such a core level.  I'm sure this has to do with ancestry on my paternal side.  This story was fascinating.  It covered the same few months but from many different people's perspective a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20092776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful story, if you can stick with the writing style.  I learned a lot from this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the perspective of descending from women like this, in small towns and villages of Poland, this was a fascinating story to read. The plot was interesting - lots of interwoven personal stories in a vignette of village life, with good character development. It wasn't an edge of your seat thriller...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44171934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a gender relations class, and I just reread it recently (2007). I love the way it tells the same story from the perspective of all characters, and how it separates them into a woman's and man's section. It's gender binary just like the society they live in. This binary is explored th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1735543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I have read books about Jews in Europe during WWII, I hadn't ever read a novel about times previous to that.  I liked how this book told the same story from three perspectives:  the women, the men and the midwife.  Perhaps it was good that I read this just prior to going to a birth.  It remind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/647871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this story of life in a Russian shtetl (Jewish village)late in the 19th century more than I expected.  It had an interesting, story, less predictable than I'd feared, and the writing was quite good.  It was also interesting for revealing the everyday customs and attitudes of that place and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/594156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, so I never even finished it. Seeing how it's been at least 3 months now, I'm giving up. I like the idea of the book and the characters are interesting, but I guess it's the writing that I can't get in to. I can't say I recommend it, but I am curious what someone else thinks about this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this several years ago, and promptly forgot the title and author, although the plot stood out significantly!  The first novel I ever read that used overlapping viewpoints-- the same events in a small Jewish village in Poland as seen by different characters.  A very intriguing story!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[THis book is on &quot;THe Shelf&quot; in my library! Excellent book! I am rereading it this weekend in Las Vegas.  I know I loved it about 6 years ago!  I want to reacquaint myself with the story.  I know I will enjoy it just as much the second time.]]></body>
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