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Plunder
- A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
- De: Meir Menachem Kaiser
- Narrado por: Meir Menachem Kaiser
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable but tiresome
- De Cecily Drucker en 04-04-21
- Plunder
- A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
- De: Meir Menachem Kaiser
- Narrado por: Meir Menachem Kaiser
Amazing book, terrible narration.
Revisado: 08-27-21
This book is fascinating and emotional and thought provoking. I hope it becomes part of the canon of literature about the Holocaust. Great story and great ruminations about narrative.
I can see why a writer writing a memoir would want to narrate the story himself, it feels like only the writer should be able to do justice for a story so personal. But there are so many distracting vocal tics, mispronunciations, poor diction, poor vocal modulation, that it really detracts from the power of the tale and the writing. It’s a shame but my rec is for people to read this book, not listen to it.
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