Comedy in a Minor Key: a novel | 
pickThe comedy, for me, was certainly very minor, to the extent that I assume the title is meant ironically, because while there were certainly the makings of a very dark farce, Keilson didn't take his story that way (unless I just don't get German humour 🤷🏻♂️). None of which is intended as criticism, as the story was very affecting & emotional, detailing the effects of living in a real-life dystopia, that of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
"People veil a body in fabric and clothing so that the blaze of its nakedness does not blind too deeply the eyes that see it, people veil life itself with precious garments, behind which, as under ashes, the double-tongued fire of creation smoulders."
Yesterday's full #bookhaul 📚
The tagged book sounds amazing - farcical & heartbreaking. A Dutch couple shelter a Jewish man during the Nazi occupation, but when he dies they have the potentially fatal problem of disposing of his body.
The Penguin is The Mirror of My Heart, a 1000 years of Persian women's poetry 💚
Bantam is a book of poetry steeped in the author's Scottish roots 🏴
I've already posted about Tolkien & Drayton🐉🧚🏻♀️
pickOne of the very first Holocaust-themed novels, published in 1947, it concerns a young, naive Dutch couple who agree to hide a Jewish man in their home during WWII. Then, he dies of pneumonia. What to do with a Jewish corpse under the Nazi occupation? Quietly powerful.
Astonishingly, his books were forgotten, to be rediscovered when he was 100 years old, the year before his death, a bittersweet comedy in its own minor key, perhaps. 4⭐ #holocaust 2y