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The story is told by a book, Rebellion by Joseph Roth. This copy of the book was saved from book burning by the Nazis and has returned to its homeland with the granddaughter of the man who saved it. Features are subject to change. iWork for iCloud is currently available worldwide in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and U.S. English and requires an iCloud account and an internet connection. iWork for iCloud works with a Mac or PC using Safari 11.1.2 or later, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge.

Dictators of all kinds rely on these people: to control a population you must first control their thoughts. Those who are afraid to think for themselves, or who think it's too hard, would love to abolish free thought. They want a set of parameters dictating not just how and what they should think, but how and what everyone should think.

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When the story begins, it is in the VOICE of a 1st edition copy, once in pristine condition, but now buried in its current owner’s handbag, along with a passport, a cell phone, a half eaten pastry and other assorted items. The book had been given to Lena Knecht, by her father, from his death bed-with explicit instructions to protect the book as if it were her little brother. She has no idea of it’s history. The narrator of this novel is Rebellion, or one copy of it in particular. Its owner, a Jewish professor, passed it on to a student of his for safekeeping. On May 10, 1933, this student smuggled it away from the university in Berlin where upwards of 25,000 books were burned (see photo above). I was delighted to have journeyed with this story, and will read more by Hamilton. Thankyou to Net Galley and the publisher for allowing me this enchanting ‘tell me a story’ which is an absolute vindication of all the pleasures of reading fiction. It's a charming device to have a book tell its own story. Unfortunately the carry through of that device is uneven at best. There are things that book knows that it couldn't possibly get from its surroundings. It's clearly omniscient and can take it more than it experiences. A powerful, powerful piece of work. A wounded book making its own book. It brings so much to life—Joseph Roth, Chechnya, Germany, the art of writing, the whole notion of banning books, the lips of the past speaking to the present.” —Colum McCann,best-selling author of Apeirogon

It is extremely well written and when I first began reading, I thought this would be a five star novel. I was in love with the way Hugo Hamilton writes. Formally daring, richly rewarding . . . This multifaceted novel about belonging, oppression and the enduring power of storytelling is brilliantly ingenious and utterly absorbing.” —Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star-TribuneHamilton's mother was a German who travelled to Ireland in 1949 for a pilgrimage, married an Irishman, and settled in the country. His father was a militant nationalist who insisted that his children should speak only German or Irish, but not English, a prohibition the young Hugo resisted inwardly. "The prohibition against English made me see that language as a challenge. Even as a child I spoke to the walls in English and secretly rehearsed dialogue I heard outside," he wrote later. In contrast -- Two weeks ago a patron asked for a book that is not in our consortium. I don't recall the title but it was about homosexuality being a sin, against the Bible, an abomination, blah blah blah. As a consequence of this, he grew up with three languages - English, Irish and German - and a sense of never really belonging to any: "There were no other children like me, no ethnic groups that I could attach myself to". Superscript/subscript formatting support, LaTeX and MathML equation support, Touch ID support, import/export support for RTF, ligature support, and customizable date/time/currency support. [30] [29]

Look for any PDF file and/or JPG images that has the same name with the .zip file you created (sometimes, it may be also named as Preview). Choose from over 90 Apple-designed templates to instantly create beautiful reports, digital books, CVs, cards, posters and more This is the main plot, which is quite simple and a mere pretext for this polyphonic novel to skilfully bring together a number of different strands: Andreas Pum’s story, the tense story of the book itself and the DDR family that kept it, Lena’s father fate as a German immigrant in racist America, Armin’s tragic past, his sister’s relationship with a racist stalker. A particular place is occupied by Roth’s complex, attentively researched character, shown as both persecuted man, a confused individual and a womaniser who committed his sensual wife to an asylum. Closely intertwined with the theme of racist and fascist strains, the novel also offers a very nuanced exploration of toxic masculinity, guilt, and betrayal: it is not a coincidence that Rebellion was physically and symbolically encased inside Effi Briest, a seminal texts defining the 19th-century fallen woman plot (Effi is cast away by her husband for a kiss with a young officer many years earlier and dies in misery). References to this and other literary texts also feature in the novel, adding to the multivocality and multiplying meanings and making this an incredibly learned book.Had there not been a modern-day romantic element running through the story, I'm sure it would have been five bold, non-book-burning stars. Readers who enjoy, or at least do not mind, exploring women-man relationships might give it five stars, but for me, those parts just made my eyes roll and skim. This is, for me, a book where the whole is greater than the parts: there are some technical issues where the book tells us what's happening to a character when it is somewhere else completely and so cannot have this knowledge; the writing is sometimes just a bit woolly; there are places where the pace drops, where the narrative thread feels like it's been lost - yet the sum of parts combine to say something meaningful about love and life, art and death, history and memory. Not, perhaps, as formally innovative as it might have been but with real heart. Only writing kept Joseph sane during the War when he lost others he cared about to mental illness or worse, and his story is meaningful, as are all of the stories from this part of history, including that of the book’s first owner. English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese