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| Title | : | Two Brothers |
| Author | : | Ben Elton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 424 pages |
| Published | : | November 8th 2012 by Bantam Press (first published 2012) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War |
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Hardcover | Pages: 424 pages Rating: 4.34 | 9179 Users | 957 Reviews
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The new novel from this well-loved, bestselling author.Two Brothers is a heartrending story of two boys growing up under the darkening shadow of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1920 and raised by the same parents, one boy is Jewish, his adopted brother is Aryan. At first, their origins are irrelevant. But as the political landscape changes they are forced to make decisions with horrifying consequences.
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| Original Title: | Two Brothers |
| ISBN: | 0593062051 (ISBN13: 9780593062050) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Berlin(Germany) Germany |
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Ratings: 4.34 From 9179 Users | 957 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Two Brothers
This book should be added to the school curriculum. It's amazing - a totally human story of how normal life is changed by evil. It's different to other accounts of being Jewish in the Third Reich but I can't quite put my finger on why... I think it's the way they author writes (I'm a fan of Ben Elton's anyway but this is the first 'serious' book I've read by him). I think it's so readable because nothing is overplayed; not the tragedy, not the emotion, not the lunacy and not the 'normality'. AndThis is an astonishingly good book: wonderfully written, craftily crafted and beautifully brutal. Firstly, that whole interwar period of the 1920's and 30's (especially in Germany) has always been a bit of a black hole for me, as history lessons in school were dominated by the World Wars, but here Ben Elton brings the Weimar Republic to life, with its extremes of poverty, decadence, violence and jazz. Secondly, it's also always been incomprehensible to me how the German public allowed the 'Final
Published in 2012, Two Brothers is Ben Eltons most personal novel to date and for reasons unknown its taken me seven years to read it. Which, in my opinion, is 7 years too long and I really should have read this book sooner.Two Brothers is based around a Jewish family living in Berlin. Freida and Wolfgang Stengel are a young couple looking forward to the imminent birth of their twin boys who are born on the same day as the birth of Hitlers Nazi party but when one of the twins is stillborn they
Awful dialogue. Poor characterisation. The first and last Ben Elton book that I will read!
I can see that this book has had lots of positive reviews, and I know that Ben Elton has plenty of fans, so I appreciate that I am in the minority with a one-star review. I will try and explain my reasons for my rating.On the positive side, the idea behind the story is a good one. We often hear of twins separated at birth, but what about twins united at birth? Especially if these twins are born on the same day as the Nazi party got its name. The idea immediately raises intriguing questions of
Utterly gripping from the start, this story of two boys born on the same day in pre war Berlin, is a tour de force. The boys, destined to become twins via a secret adoption of one of the boys at birth, grow from children to adult soldiers, born to Wolfgang, a musician in the heady Berlin nightclub scene, and Freida , a doctor - a Jewish family living a simple life. Until Hitler came to power. Slowly , the author builds the feelings of abject terror and menace that the Jews endured on a daily
It's described as his "most personal novel to date", and maybe that's the problem. This is a frankly dreadful novel. The basic premise - two brothers living a complex life through WW2 - is fair enough.But Ben Elton's usual problem in real life is that he doesn't know when to stop preaching (it was always the weakness of his stand-up comedy) and in this book, he tells us that the Nazis were bad. Then he tells us that they were very bad. They did bad things. And did you know that they were bad?
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