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• Arrivato ieri! In ottime condizioni e veloce nella consegna. Non vedo l'ora di iniziarlo

• This book is extremely dramatic to a depressive point, but nevertheless, worth reading every single word of it. The characters are described in every human detail, even the minor ones. So, what can be said about the main two characters, Aimee and Jaguar-the reader, enters the land of the women's thoughts, feelings, fears, in a so painful, but true way. I read the 300 pages in two and a half day, but i kept thinking about them, for weeks after finishing the book. God, some peoples life-stories, just HAVE TO be told! And Erica Fischer is a great storyteller. She actually invades to the psyche of the people she talks about, she psycho analyses them. By finishing this book, i feel more rich inside, it's like i have suffered a small share of someone else's pain- and somehow this is owed, to Aimee and Jaguar, for what they had been through. Read it.

• Interesting story. Book arrived fast.

• Every film critic remarks of Aimee and Jaguar that the story is too strange for fiction: the Nazi housewife in love with the ultra-spunky Jewish lesbian journalist/underground resistance fighter. If, like me, you walked away from the film with an uneasy sense that some of the story's more astonishing turns and fantastic characters were merely the products of stellar film-making, this book is for you. Ms. Fischer treats her text as an honest-to-goodness historian should and provides a wealth of primary source documents -- interviews, letters, post cards, receipts -- to support every anecdote. It differs in from the film in that it is less a story of dramatic seduction (although that certainly figures in; you could hardly tell the story without it) and more about the larger narrative of how one short life and one long life intersected. The nuts and bolts of Lily's character remain a subject for valid debate, although it is worth noting that Ms. Fischer makes no secret of her intention to portray the troubled woman in a less than flattering light. Felice Schraggenheim continues to be the real too-colorful-to-be-true scene-stealer, as she was in the film and, apparently, in life. It is neither cinematic genius nor the flair of a novelist that exaggerate her character into something larger than life; primary source documents confirm that this remarkable young woman built that pedestal herself and unabashedly climbed on top of it. Up to the very last, her letters were eloquent, warm, loving, brave, and -- impossibly! -- funny. Caveat: if you are looking for an unblemished love story, you will have to willfully ignore a lot in order to find it here. Lily and Felice were real people, and they had accrued some serious psychological issues before they met. The film relies on viewers to infer that by 1944, both women -- like most Berliners -- were carrying far too much baggage to be genuinely well-adjusted. Ms. Fischer is more frank about it. For my ten bucks, that makes for a richer and more compelling tale in which two profoundly imperfect people find a dangerous and unsustainable comfort in each other's arms. But if you were looking for a romance so flawless that only the Holocaust could ruin it, best stick to fiction.

• sous un climat difficile , des relations extraordinaires voient le jour , le guerre , la délation, le racisme n'empêcheront pas l'amour , mais l'arrêtera brutalement comme dit l'auteur , ce n'est plus son histoire c'est la notre

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