I just finished I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, and I can't stop thinking about it. I have that feeling of knowing I'll never find a book like it, at least not including any specific elements it had and throwing them together the way Lamb did. I was already distraught with what happened in the novel itself; realizing I'd never get to experience reading it for the first time again made me just the slightest bit more miserable lol. Anyone else have a book or books they enjoyed and resonated so hard with that you kind of feel sad about finishing it?
[Read in original version, Spanish]
Less than an hour ago I finished a book about the horrors of war: "Postcards from the East" by Reyes Monforte. I didn't know how to mention it here but I needed to talk about it.
It tells us about the holocaust from the point of view of a prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The author does a great job of research narrating the horrors that the Nazis committed. Although it is written in an impeccable style, it is a very difficult book to read because of the inhumanity of what was experienced in the extermination camps.
Sometimes we see the Second World War as something far away. However, when I was reading this book I kept thinking that my grandparents lived during a time when millions of people were systematically tortured and murdered for a macabre ideology. I cannot understand how so little has been learned from this era and how massacres such as the one suffered daily by the Palestinian population in Gaza continue to take place.
It is difficult to recommend a book that leaves you so broken inside, but it is essential reading for the memory of the victims to live on.
