Like many other readers, I enjoyed ( if that's the right word for such disturbing stories) both the Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, so I bought Stories of Hope without reading reviews. This was a big mistake.
An even bigger mistake was for anyone to publish this self-praising, repetitive drivel in the first place. It is appallingly badly edited, full of repeats not just of ideas but of complete sentences verbatim and tells us hardly anything new. There are glimpses of the author's own distinctly unremarkable family, a plug for the next Holocaust survival story coming our way and a whole lot of pseudo psychiatry on how to communicate, at which the author keeps telling us she is only an amateur ( but clearly thinks of herself as a professional).
There are a few interesting passages on how she wove her Tattooist story around the memories that Lale shared with her but a lot of it was just bragging about how clever she was at extracting the information and we were told the same things, again and again about how she built up the relationship via the dogs, via her marvellous sensitivity to his mood and so on till I practically reached screaming point.
I may well read the next book too but now I have seen that the author is content to express her opinions on a whole country and culture after a few days acquaintance, I am not so sure I trust the source as much as I did. I have spent weeks in Israel and the Occupied Territories and I still wouldn't consider myself capable of making a sound judgement thereon but this author voices her 'considered' opinions after mere days in the area. That does not give me a lot of confidence in her work.
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