ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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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
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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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