If This Is A Man / The Truce

I read this book because it appeared on James Mustich's “1000 Books to Read Before You Die” list. I'm now at 85/1000, haha!

I'd never heard of it, so despite my misgivings about Mustich's book (I'll review it one day) it is introducing me to books I never would have read.

It's easy to discern what it's about based on the cover. This is the autobiographical account of an Italian Jewish man who survived not only Auschwitz but the haphazard repatriation back to Italy in the hands of the Russian Army. It's beautiful, awful, exhausting, and somehow hopeful.

I do think it's a book everyone should read once.

This book was brutal, brutal.... But one of the most thought and emotion provoking books I've read, a masterpiece.

Remember Hurbinek...

If you do not question humanity after reading this you seriously need some reflection time. Gut wrenching to say the least...