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Jul 20, 2016GilbertMartin rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Although this book is ostensibly about the relationship between two young Germans during WWII, they appear together only at the very beginning and very end of the story. So I think it is more about the wartime experiences of each one in very different settings: Leningrad and Berlin. As others have pointed out, the main point of the book are the moral and psychological pressures on people under extremely difficult circumstances. Very realistic, gritty depiction of ordinary people's lives under Nazism.