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Original Title:	Skeletons at the Feast
ISBN:	0307394956 (ISBN13: 9780307394958)
Edition Language:	English

Skeletons at the Feast

Chris Bohjalian

Hardcover | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 4 | 23275 Users | 2422 Reviews

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Title	:	Skeletons at the Feast
Author	:	Chris Bohjalian
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	May 6th 2008 by Crown (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. World War II. Holocaust

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In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.

Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the stalag to her family’s farm as forced labor. And there is a twenty-six-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, who the pair know as Manfred–who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz.

As they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war. Their flight will test both Anna’s and Callum’s love, as well as their friendship with Manfred–assuming any of them even survive.

Perhaps not since The English Patient has a novel so deftly captured both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war. Skillfully portraying the flesh and blood of history, Chris Bohjalian has crafted a rich tapestry that puts a face on one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies–while creating, perhaps, a masterpiece that will haunt readers for generations.

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"You forget pain. We all do. We tell ourselves that we remember the specifics, but its all just a lot of pictures and words in our heads. No sensations. I think we actually remember life's humiliations better. The degradations. The cruelties. But the pain? We seem to forget what pain actually feels like. It's like a cloud after the sky has cleared."In 1945, as World War II is in its dying throes, a group of people cross Germany fleeing the incoming Russians in an attempt to reach safety in the

This book is very average. I was annoyed with his writting style of frequently interrupting sentences with dashes/breaks, adding in an afterthought or additional information. The interruptions sometimes were so long I had to re-read the sentence to remember the original thought. I felt like it was very choppy, with the "---" (dashes/breaks) being overused. I also needed to re-read sections because it was not entirely clear which character's thoughts I was reading. As far as the story's violence

I can handle reading a lot of fantasy violence and torture, because, no matter how connected to the characters I am-I know on some level as Im reading that it did NOT happen. So, when I picked up Skeletons I knew that would be different, and I was right. Even the smallest acts of cruelty in this book twisted my guts because I know that what the Jews went through during the Holocaust is absolute reality. Just thinking about it makes me feel sick. So, in a way, this book was the opposite of

3.5 rounded up to 4Published in 2008, Chris Bohjalian's historical fiction novel, "Skeletons at the Feast," focuses on the disintegrating state of Nazi Germany in the final months of World War II. The novel seeks to humanize and empathize with German Nazis who fled for their lives as Russia began its military push toward Berlin.Author Ruta Sepetys chose the same situation and setting in her YA historical fiction novel, "Salt to the Sea," published in 2016. I loved that book. Sepetys's novel made

A heartbreaking story of the holocaust told from the perspective of a kind German family fleeing the Russians with their Scottish POW Callum whom their daughter Anna loves. I soon found myself adoring young Theo and the strength of his mother "Mutti" as well as the disguised Jewish man Uri who helps them in their struggle to survive.As in other books of the holocaust that I have read, the plight of the Jewish people is horrific and often graphic in Bohjalian's novel, but I enjoyed the book

Skeletons at the Feast was my second Chris Bohjalian novel. I enjoyed it far more than I did The Night Strangers, which was the first book I read written by him. The novel was one of the four group reads voted in for the month of April in my book club, Sweeter Reads. Yes, I know, I'm a little ahead of the game, but I'm going to be away the latter part of March; I'll be at the farm while our animals give birth. It's a very busy time, and I may not be able to get much reading done. The main thing

5 ☆ A bittersweet story not just about love, this story is so MUCH more than that..I thought we were all going to dieYou and all the other prisoners?No. The Jews. All of us. I tried to keep my hopes up but these last weeks.. it was gone all gone. I thought they were going to exterminate us all.The characters felt as real as if I were right there experiencing their pain with them. Each one of their stories touched on all of my senses. I felt so much compassion for the characters that it literally