A Sparrow In Terezin
Kristy Cambron
Thomas Nelson, Apr 7 2015, $15.99
ISBN: 9781401690618
In present day Sausalito, California Sera James feels blessed as
she has just opened her art gallery and married William Hanover. Just after they exchange their vows, Carter
arrives to arrest William for illegal business dealings that he insists he
never did. While he faces ten years, his
wife faces denunciations that threaten her family. Thus she travels to Europe to learn what her
husband hid from her.
In 1939, Kája Makovsky feels fortunate to escape Nazi occupied
Prague, but fears the worst for her family; especially since some are
Jewish. Three years later in England,
Kája, working as a Daily Telegraph journalist, learns of Hitler’s Final
Solution mass executions of Jews. Though
frightened, with help from her boyfriend Kája returns to Czechoslovakia trying
to get her family to England. Instead
she ends up incarcerated in the Terezin Concentration Camp near Warsaw where
Kája and others become teachers, mentors and bearers of hope to children like
Sophie.
The second Hidden Masterpiece (see The
Butterfly and the Violin) is a thrilling inspirational based on the premise of
Dr. Viktor Frankl’s
“Man's Search for Meaning”; a person
has a better chance for obtaining a wonderful life if they believe it will
occur even while trapped in hell.
Character-driven in both eras the captivating subplots hook the audience
throughout as we root for the sparrow to soar free of the evil men do unto to
others.
Harriet Klausner
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