The Wrong Boy
The Wrong Boy, by Suzy Zail
Blurb:Hanna Mendel was going to be a famous pianist. But the Nazis had another plan. Thrown into Auschwitz, she plays piano for a camp commandant and wears a dead girl's dress pinned with a yellow star.And she is falling in love - with the wrong boy.I loved this book! I felt like it was carelessly titled, because there was so much more than a story of falling in love with the wrong boy and that really was't what the story centred on. It was an amazingly touching story about the holocaust and one that I will definitely be recommending to my friends and will probably end up reading again.Being meant for young adults it was simply written, but that didn't particularly bother me.Hanna was a great character and I think it would be impossible not to sympathise with her. There were several passages that were quite emotional, though it does't tell you anything that most people don't already know about the Holocaust.All in all, this was a very moving story and I look forward to reading Suzy Zail's adult book about the Holocaust.My favourite quotes from 'The Wrong Boy':'They'd put us in the ghetto and sealed the gate; what we did inside its grimy walls was our business.'' "Fathers lie," Erika shrugged. "It's part of the job." ''I'm proud to be a Jew. I live behind the barbed wire with philosophers, scientists, artists and teachers, with gypsies, poets and composers.'' "Hope's tiring." '
Blurb:Hanna Mendel was going to be a famous pianist. But the Nazis had another plan. Thrown into Auschwitz, she plays piano for a camp commandant and wears a dead girl's dress pinned with a yellow star.And she is falling in love - with the wrong boy.I loved this book! I felt like it was carelessly titled, because there was so much more than a story of falling in love with the wrong boy and that really was't what the story centred on. It was an amazingly touching story about the holocaust and one that I will definitely be recommending to my friends and will probably end up reading again.Being meant for young adults it was simply written, but that didn't particularly bother me.Hanna was a great character and I think it would be impossible not to sympathise with her. There were several passages that were quite emotional, though it does't tell you anything that most people don't already know about the Holocaust.All in all, this was a very moving story and I look forward to reading Suzy Zail's adult book about the Holocaust.My favourite quotes from 'The Wrong Boy':'They'd put us in the ghetto and sealed the gate; what we did inside its grimy walls was our business.'' "Fathers lie," Erika shrugged. "It's part of the job." ''I'm proud to be a Jew. I live behind the barbed wire with philosophers, scientists, artists and teachers, with gypsies, poets and composers.'' "Hope's tiring." '
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