Jodi Picoult. The Storyteller. Heart-wrenching. Stunning. Harrowing.
How else should I, or could I, describe this novel? Simply
outstanding. Bought it a couple of weeks ago, but started reading it last Friday.
And honestly speaking, it was too good to be put aside. I read it daily since
and finished it earlier today. How I wish it never ends.
The synopsis:
Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old
man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's
favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a
favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses—and then he confesses his darkest
secret – he deserves to die because he had been a Nazi SS guard. And Sage's
grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. How do you react to evil living next door?
Can someone who's committed truly heinous acts ever atone with subsequent good
behavior? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who
was wronged? And, if Sage even considers the request, is it revenge…or justice?
Well, another excellent piece of writing by Jodi Picoult. She is getting into one of my favourite authors list, it seems. If you need a
good read, this is one. The theme discussed would definitely refer to
forgiveness. But then, it is more than that. It has the holocaust harrowing
experience shared in details, a tinge of romance, emotions breakdown, slices of
humour, the twists that are least expected, and to conclude it, it is a story
woven intricately and nicely and superbly by the author.
Layan..
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