Helpful Score: 2
The story of Antonia, Jan, Rys, and their human and animal companions caught up in a Nazi-controlled Warsaw during WWII is fascinating. Sometimes, however, I was so struck by the beauty of Ackerman's prose, or caught by a word she used that I'd never seen before, that I lost the thread of the narrative. I found that I could only read a few pages a night. Still, this is one of those histories that is written in such a memorable and dramatic way that I'm sure it is slated to become a much-anticipated motion picture. I'm already visualizing Kate Winslet or Tilda Swinton in the role of Antonia.
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