
The Zookeeper's Wife
A War Story
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Narrateur(s):
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Suzanne Toren
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Auteur(s):
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Diane Ackerman
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The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history.
Drawing on Antonina’s diary and other historical sources, bestselling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina’s life as “the zookeeper’s wife,” responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their “guests”: resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto.
Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinski’s young son risked his life carrying food to the guests, while also tending to an eccentric array of creatures in the house: pigs, hare, muskrat, foxes, and more. With hidden people having animal names and pet animals having human names, it’s a small wonder the zoo’s code name became “The House under a Crazy Star.” Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet.
©2007 Diane Ackerman (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks AmericaCe que les critiques en disent
"Ackerman's affecting telling of the heroic Zabinskis' dramatic story illuminates the profound connection between humankind and nature, and celebrates life's beauty, mystery, and tenacity." ( Booklist)
Excellent book
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Wartime at the Zoo
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If you can stick through the writing style, it really IS an incredible story of a family who took huge risks to help so many people, as well as the almost unbelievable amount of damage that was inflicted to Warsaw as Hitler tried to eliminate it entirely. Apparently this has been made into a movie, which might be a bit more approachable than the very detached style of narration.
Interesting subject but very dry narrative
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Not bad
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Life
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love love love
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What a backdrop for WWII and the hiding of Jews
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