A review by angelayoung
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall, Philip Boehm

4.0

This is a hard book to read because of what it tells. In its spare stark prose it tells of terrible terrible things. In short sentences, short sections ... indeed it is a short book ... it holds whole worlds, whole awful worlds, within its 168 pages. But it should be read just as Schindler's Ark should be read, just as any holocaust literature should be read.

Here, for instance, is one, no four, whole words in one short sentence:

She should have told her husband to take them one at a time: first the father, then the wife.

It must be read, so that we never forget.