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The Missing by Michael Rosen
Moving and profound response to Holocaust in writer's account of his family's WWII experiences
‘WE CAN’T LIVE IN DESPAIR’: Michael Rosen
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
MICHAEL ROSEN needs no introduction to children, parents and teachers who are drawn to his humanity. It’s a quality which fills this short book, one in which a single paragraph or line of poetry can give rise to deep reflection or intense discussion.
Rosen’s hunt for his missing relatives, in particular two great-uncles about whom his father said: “They were there at the beginning of the war but they had gone by the end,” covered many years of research and culminated in this book, a mix of personal family history interspersed with the general history of the rise of the nazis and WWII.
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