Review: Powerful and Revelatory
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
We often speak of untold histories as if they are something distance and detached from ourselves, only understood through the stale words of a textbook. In Hammelburg's revelatory novel, these personal and visceral tales finally receive the light they deserve. It is a novel of interwoven generational narratives that almost seem to GAIN power as they are passed along. The horrors of the war are fortunately not the only focus, and throughout, the interactions of friends, acquaintances, and like-minded lovers add an additional layer to the atrocity we all recognize. A story of survival, a story of pain, pride, and human experience, Hammelburg's "Memories" has a little something for everybody. Recommended