This is a grim subject but a remarkable translation of a great novel. I read the novel and I thought this was a moving treatment. This is not about watching a victim. This is about a child so fully immersed in this world that he has moments of boredom or happiness or lucidity. There is a fully worked out philosophy of survival and therefore a contempt for those people beyond the laager who sensationalise it. This young man is displaced on leaving the several camps he passes through. He senses peoples disapproval or attempts to keep him at a distance in the outside world. The young man is remarkable. He wanted the reader to soberly witness the horrors at hand and keep our humanity. You realize how wrong 'Schindler's List' is and how wrong it is to write/film a subject that requires great sensitivity and inner steel. Surprised it was not more favourably reviewed.
/Lorna Markson, United Kingdom