If I read this book and didn't know who the author was, I really would have assumed that it was written as some weird fantasy by a man. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The first two-thirds of the book are filled with intriguing, page-turning plots and interesting characters.

I didn't have to look far to find it and after detaching it from the wall, I put it back on its dish. After his parents disappear, Johannes is the only one aware of Elsa’s existence in the house and he alone is responsible for her fate. But as it is, I was angry the whole time, and I think I only finished the book because someone excitedly suggested it to me. This is the novel on which Taiki Waititi's Jojo Rabbit is based, so if you haven't seen it and you want to see it (and I recommend you do because, in my view, it's one of the best films of the last few years), it's best to ignore my comments, because there will be a bit of compare and contrast going on. This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes, an avid member of the Hitler Youth in the 1940s.While it’s an easy read, there’s subtle commentary throughout the narrative that forces the reader to pay attention and ask a lot of questions. I wasn't allowed to go in her room when she was giving herself her insulin shots, but one time, hearing my mother tell her to use her thigh if her abdomen was sore, I disobeyed and caught her with her green Tracht pulled up past her stomach. There is the nail-biting tension of the plot, the fear for the reader that Elsa will be discovered, with all the attendant repercussions for Johannes.

It explores a less rare from of relationship, it appears, than one believes: love so total that it locks up, isolates and colonises the partner until destruction; annihilates the outside world. Su primer idea es entregarla, pero tiene miedo que lo consideren a él un traidor ya que su familia lo es, así que comienza a relacionarse con ella a pesar de que piensa que es un animal. El libro está muy bien escrito, es más diría que desde ese punto es excelente, atrapa, engancha y te dan ganas de terminarlo.

She holds a Master of Liberal Arts in English and American literature and language from Harvard University. CL: My agent, Laura Susijn, initially had trouble selling the book, but thankfully she had faith in it and persisted, and though it wasn’t first published in its original language, English, she found foreign publishers who agreed that it was an important work and translations in French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan ensued. The characters were very unusual and the plot took an unexpected turn after the initial few chapters. That it often seemed like she was the one who was manipulating and playing him, rather than the other way around. This became a habit and every night it escaped and went farther so that I would spend the onset of my day looking for and detaching it from table legs, the Meissen porcelain on display, the wallpaper or someone's shoe.