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Rather than tackle the war with the drama and epic proportion of a battle chronicle, or the heartbreak of a holocaust drama, ausubel draws inspiration from her own family history, setting no one is here except all of us in a remote jewish village in romania. At the end of the book, lena writes to chaya, someday, your children will ask what happened, and you will tell a new version, and in this way, the story will keep living. While the world around them rages with war and their people are once again persecuted and terrorized, armed with just a sense of wonder and trust, zalischik recreates the world and wakes up to day one. No one is here except all of us by ramona ausubel had all the trappings of a book i love. No one is here except all of us compact disc keplers books. Under the impending threat of nazi invasion, a tiny jewish town in 1939 austria decides to reinvent its past. Its the kind of title for a novel that i think, what a perfect fit. No one is here except all of us king county library. The only true thing is whats in front of you right now.
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