Galerie, by Steven Greenberg
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Galerie, by Steven Greenberg
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One woman's quest for truth reveals a dark family secret long buried in Prague's Nazi past. Every family holds to secrets, but some are far darker, reach deeper, and touch a rawer nerve than others. Vanesa Neuman is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and her childhood in the cramped intimacy of south Tel Aviv is shadowed by her parents' unspoken wartime experiences. The past for her was a closed book... until her father passes away and that book falls literally open Vanesa must now unravel the mystery of the diary she has received-and the strange symbol within-at all costs.Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation and the Jewish Museum of Prague - Adolf Eichmann's"Museum of an Extinct Race" - Galerie is fast-paced historical fiction in the tradition of Tatiana De Rosnay's Sarah's Key.From Jerusalem's Yad V'Shem Holocaust research center, to the backstreets of Prague, and into the former "paradise ghetto" of Theresienstadt, Vanesa's journey of understanding will reveal a darker family past than she ever imagined - a secret kept alive for over half a century.
Galerie, by Steven Greenberg- Amazon Sales Rank: #1043980 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .52" w x 6.14" l, .77 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 246 pages
Review "...a story that will mesmerize readers from page one." ~ Singing Librarian Books"...brings the psychological and cultural legacy of the holocaust up to date..." ~ Escapology Reviews"Buy this book and say goodbye to your family for the weekend, because you will not want to put it down..." ~ Eric W. Swett"Imagine Stephen King wrote Schindler's List..." ~ Nikki "...so provocative that it is impossible to put down." ~ Sydology
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful. A gripping read By BookWormNZ Galerie is a gripping read, rich with intrigue from beginning to end. As much a thriller as a “Holocaust novel”, while also filled with fact-based information. I was immediately drawn into the story, and found myself wanting to speed through the pages to see what would unfold next. The main character, Vanesa, the Israeli-born daughter of two Holocaust survivors, and now an historian, is obsessed with uncovering the story behind her father and paternal grandfather’s wartime experiences. The book moves back and forth through time: wartime, 1970s and 80s, and “present day” 1990s. Likewise, locations change: Prague, Therezinstadt, Israel, USA and other smaller locations. The time shifts allow intrigue and understanding, creating a compelling build-up to the climax. The story that unfolds is hinted at throughout the book, but it was only on my second reading that I recognized the breadcrumbs for what they were.With so many novels set around WWII, saying something new is quite a feat. Yet, in this novel, Greenberg pulls it off. Yes, there are shades of the DaVinci Code (strange symbols imbued with unclear meaning, shady and mysterious characters) and Sarah’s Key (modern exploration of a very personal Holocaust experience that represents a far larger experience; shifting between different times and places), but still Galerie hits an original note. And, unlike many such novels, it made me think. My recommendation: read all the way to the end of the book, including the historical notes provided after the end of the novel itself.I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys historical fiction or historical thrillers in general, and specifically anyone who has an interest in Holocaust fiction.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Holocaust suspense thriller By Laurence Steven Greenberg's second novel, Galerie, is a work of Holocaust historical fiction. It is a very well researched, action-packed page-turner. Greenberg is the son-in-law of a third cousin of mine. I met him once, in Tel Aviv, in 2010. While I do not view this as çonflict of interest 'in writing a review (I've panned books by writers with whom I have a much closer relationship), I do feel it ethical to let anyone reading my review to know about this.The story, told by the protagonist's camp counselor/eventual lover/future husband/subsequently divorced ex-husband, starts at a summer camp in Wisconsin in the early 1980s and goes through the early 1990s, moving to Tel Aviv with flashbacks to Prague and the Camps during the Second World War.Vanesa Neuman, the protagonist with a PhD in history, is the daughter of Holocaust survivor Michael Neuman, whose father, Jakob Neuman and uncle Tomas raised her. Upon Michael's death, Vanesa obtains her father's diary which was filled with stories and symbols so 'startling'that Vanesa was determined to do the necessary research at both Yad Vashem in Israel and the Jewish Museum of Prague to discover, if possible, what her parents, grand father and uncle did to survive as they never revealed these horrors to Vanesa.The untold story that Vanesa starts to discover is sufficient to cause unsuccessful murder attempts on her life as well as the murders of others involved with her attempt to find out the true story of her parents, grandfather and uncle's survival during the War.To what extent did those who survived but were not 'on the run' or in hiding collaborate with the Nazis? Were their acts despicable? How does one view those acts of survival? How does the survivor live the post-war future?These are the fundamental questions that Greenberg poses in a well written, easy to read, appealing manner. I don't want to go into any more detail, here, because it would diminish that intruiging, page-turning aspect away from this book. This is a piece of fiction that will definitely hold your interest and I recommend it without any qualifications!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. I thought I was going to hate it. We open with a female protagonist in ... By James I was given a copy of this book as part of a Novel Publicity tour. I’ll be honest, when I began to read the first chapter of this book, I thought I was going to hate it. We open with a female protagonist in the middle of an attack by two men on the streets of Prague. I thought, ‘great, once again we resort to rape as a plot device’. But it turned out I jumped to conclusions. While the attack was disturbing in its own way, it wasn’t rape, and it did fit into the plot. So don’t let that first chapter turn you off from this book.The book opens in Prague, 1991, and flashes back to the 1980’s and 1940’s through flashbacks and memories. What I found interesting is that the narrator is the unnamed once-husband of the protagonist, Vanesa Neuman. He’s not present throughout most of the story, yet he’s the one telling the tale. Makes one wonder how reliable he is. As the mystery Vanesa follows takes her deeper into danger, and she becomes more obsessed with her search, the husband’s feelings of abandonment and rejection color the tale while still attempting to tell the full story with every detail.When Vanesa’s father passes away, she inherits a journal he wrote when he was a boy in Prague. In it, he tells tales of people from all different walks of life, from all over the world. All the characters are Jewish, but they are so different from one another that Vanesa has to wonder where he got the ideas from. Did he meet all those people? He’d also drawn a strange symbol on the pages, and it intrigues Vanesa even more.So she goes to Prague, with the help of an uncle who still has ties to Czechoslovakia, to find answers. All the pieces of the puzzle start coming together through flashbacks to the Nazi occupation of Prague, the stories written by Vanesa’s father, and the narrator’s own observations of Vanesa and her quest. Armed with nothing but her brains and unwavering resolve bordering on obsession, Vanesa follows the clues to one horrifying, inevitable conclusion. But will she survive to tell the tale?Mr. Greenburg did a really good job of recreating each time period and location. I had a hard time putting this book down, wanting to know what would happen to Vanesa and what the mystery was. I didn’t figure it out until very close to the reveal, which is truly terrifying.
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