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| Original Title: | Survivre avec les loups |
| ISBN: | 0749950617 (ISBN13: 9780749950613) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Misha Defonseca, wolves |
Misha Defonseca
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.4 | 815 Users | 87 Reviews
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| Title | : | Surviving With Wolves |
| Author | : | Misha Defonseca |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | April 18th 2005 by Portrait (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. World War II. Holocaust |
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This book was supposed to be an amazing true survival story of a little girl whose parents were taken to Auschwitz. She made her way through the woods of Europe during the WW2 and was later adopted by a family of wolves who took care of her. Later she found her way back home but never met her parents again. However, it has been revealed that the author Misha Defonseca (real name Monique De Wael) made up the whole story. She was not even Jewish. De Wael was brought up Catholic but kept on insisting her story was true up until it was found out to be a fabrication in March 2008.Rating Based On Books Surviving With Wolves
Ratings: 3.4 From 815 Users | 87 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Surviving With Wolves
My mother read this (she's always on the look-out for Big Print books and this one seemed interesting) and found it fascinating. Nevertheless, she expressed her doubts about its truth a few times. Despite that, she recommeded it to the family and so I got it from the library. Before I read it I decided to check it out, and Wikipedia gave me all the details about the Hoax. Sad.Having 'blown its cover' I wasn't at all sure whether to bother reading it, but as Mum had still really enjoyed it IThe author of this book is a serial liar and fantasist, who made a great deal of money out of her fabrications but is having her butt sued off in court. For recent details, check e.g. this page.
At one lecture, a woman said to me, Youre not a holocaust survivor. You didnt live in the camps. Hers was just one voice among others. It shouldnt have upset me as it did, but I was annoyed with myself for telling the world a story that wasnt universally accepted, just because it wasnt like everyone elses. I was different, as always Surviving with wolves is indeed unique, a story different from any other one you might have read. It takes place during the war and the reader sees through Jewish
Although I find the historical backdrop fascinating, truth be told, I read this book because the Boston Globe ran an article on Feb 29th about how the author made the whole thing up. Truly, it was boring, like a really, really bad tale of what it MIGHT have been like. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articl...
Literary fraudhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...
It is a pleasant read, but very clearly fictional. I think it is rude that the author tried to paint a picture of the horrific things people had to go trough in the war, claimed that she lived it while all the time she was safe and sound. It would have been different if she was honest from the start and come out that it was a fictional story.
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