Liberation
by Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott has created another masterpiece that is timely in its ways of reflecting
upon a war a very long time ago to bring home how the lives of our parents and grandparents
were affected, and again bringing it forward to today, to show how our lives and the lives
of our children will be caused turmoil by the wars of today. This is a book that is to
be savored and relived a few times to meet the obligations of understanding that we so
desire to gain.
Liberation is a study of a very young girl learning far to quickly about life
in war by having to hide to stay alive as invaders come into the home where she lived and
kill her mother and the rest of the people who she cared for and who enveloped her young
life. Adriana Nardi must soon free herself from the cabinet below the sink. She must
face what is left of her world. And she must go on with the life and fall in love,
marry, have a husband and children, family and all the rest of the normalcies that the
rest of the world comes to know in the ensuing years. Her memories return to the Elbans
and the struggle for freedom, as her life grows and becomes richer and fuller with every
passing day. Her reflections will have the last moments of definition through her eyes
as she suffers a heart attack on a commuter train.
Definitely a soul searching book that is a must read for everyone interested in the
psychological atrocities of war and the effects that they will always carry forward into
the rest of the life lived by the persons involved. Joanna Scott writes magically and
breathtakingly about all the thoughts that will race a person to peace. |
The Book |
Little, Brown and Company, New York, Boston |
November 2005 |
HardCover |
0-316-01953-7 |
Historical Fiction |
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Excerpt |
NOTE: Fictionalized account of WWII |
The Reviewer |
Claudia
VanLydegraf |
Reviewed 2006 |
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