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, by Rhidian Brook
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File Size: 2921 KB
Print Length: 354 pages
Publisher: Vintage (September 17, 2013)
Publication Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
ASIN: B00C0ALX9K
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The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook depicts a time and place not often depicted in literature: post-WWII Germany–specifically, Hamburg in 1946. The Aftermath tells the story of a British officer, his wife, and their young son sharing a requisitioned home with a German man and his teenaged daughter. This situation proves ripe for drama and clashing relationships and tensions, and Brook delivers. A note at the back of the book explains that the author got the idea from his Grandfather who hared a house with a German family after the war, which from what I understand, was certainly not the norm.English couple Lewis and Rachael are distanced after the war, Lewis rather hung up on the idea of Rachael, and Rachael suffering from most likely a form of PTSD after the loss of someone close (I won’t say who due to spoilers). Lewis and Rachael are almost foils to each other: Lewis holds everything in while Rachael lets everything out despite her best efforts at the typical English stiff upper lip. Their son, Edmund, on the other hand, is relatively upbeat and curious despite the impacts of the war and witnessing the devastation of post-war Germany. Orphans of all ages run free in hodge-podge found clothes, scavenging food and belongings, squatting in abandoned homes, and desperately seeking prized cigarettes or food from the British soldiers. The orphans engage in a type of black market trade, with cigarettes being the main currency, and Edmund getting caught up in the plight of the Orphans.Brook offers brief vignettes of the German family, Stefan and Freda, but I found their characters thinly painted. More time seems to have been spent fleshing out the English family. I would have liked to have gotten to know Stefan and Freda much more than Brook offered.The Aftermath, at times, falls into the trope of the emotionally frozen marriage and the subsequent actions of husband and wife; one party inevitably being “awakened†by adultery. I won’t speak too much on that subject given the spoiler-territory, but I will say that while that aspect was enjoyable to read, it was predictable.I found myself distracted by the author’s thesaurus-happy tendencies, perhaps because I don’t like writing that tries to elevate itself by posh language rather than theme at the risk of becoming pretentious. Maybe that’s just my egalitarian outlook in general, although I do obviously understand the importance of people learning new words from reading.My main issue with The Aftermath is that is seems to be an incomplete book. The ending was quite abrupt and although there is allusion to closure, I felt there was no closure for any of the characters, which was very unsatisfying.
Quite good. Deals with a much misunderstood time and place in history, Germany after WWII. There's been a lot of history written about this lately that dispels the myths surrounding that time period, i.e. that the allied occupation of Germany was a benign undertaking. In fact, it was very brutal and millions of civilians suffered or lost their lives as a result. The notion of victor's justice and collective guilt were very much in evidence, as this book demonstrates. The prevailing mindset at the time seems to have been, "Well, you've slaughtered our innocent civilians so now it's our turn to do the same to yours!" It took several years for more reasonable minds(Hoover, Marshall, et. al.) to prevail.The Brits, to their credit and despite a shocking lack of funds, were probably the best of the occupiers. The Russians and the French were deplorable, the Americans little better. The protagonist in this story, a fundamentally decent British colonel named Lewis Morgan, demonstrates that humanity in very difficult circumstances, specifically by sharing a house requisitioned by the occupation authorities with its German owner and his daughter, something very unusual at the time. The story renders the characters as complex and basically sympathetic, conflicted and suffering in turn. There are echoes of Golding's "Lord of the Flies" with the trummerkinder and their "beast", the flies swarming the rubble and their juvenile hierarchy.Actually, I would have given this four and a half stars. The missing half star? Well the story is a little too neat, to my thinking, and it could have and maybe should have had a much darker ending. But, I guess we live in a feel good age, don't we? Also, there are some odd locutions in it. "Diffuse" is simply a mistake or a kindle mis-transcription for "defuse", also "callow", "murder"(a "murder of crows"?!), and "strip"(although I found a British definition for that in the OED). Briticisms? Well, the author is British and well-educated (I assume) so perhaps.Notwithstanding those quibbles, a very good read, highly recommended
I read this book because I had seen the trailer for the upcoming movie with Keira knightly. I am not sure the some of the characters were developed as much as the could have been and the ending just left the reader hanging
A moving tale of a British military officer who is assigned to Hamburg, Germany in 1946, immediately following the end of World War II. Colonel Lewis Morgan is allowed to resettle his family -- wife Rachael and son Edmund -- into a home requisitioned from a German family. When Lewis realizes that the owner, a widower and his teen daughter, will be put out, and sees that the home is more than spacious enough to house both families, he proposes a most unusual arrangement -- that the British and German families share the home. Thus the scene is set for a compelling look at all the horrors suffered on both sides and the painful process of picking up the pieces. While this story does not sugar coat the evils perpetrated by the Germans, it does serve to show a human side to those Germans who were caught in the middle, without minimizing the emotional toll the war took on the British. I enjoyed this book and would heartily recommend it.
this is an excellent book that i read for a book club that i would not have chosen myself and that's one of the benefits of book groups is that you read things you might ordinarily not choose to read by yourself. i had never considered how Germany might have struggled pulling itself together after the war. the story well documents the lives of several storytellers so that you get a real understanding how difficult it was for them.
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