Read my full review on Sassi Sam.
Lola is almost a book about nothing nothing much but it
is a brilliant portrait of an 'ordinary' women. Based on Lily Brett's
life as a young journalist for an Australian rock magazine, the novel
opens with Lola interviewing Jimi Hendrix minutes after an early gig.
She travels in London and the US, interviewing some of the most
incredible musicians of the 1960s. From there, the novel skips over
the decades of Lola's life, drawing a slow portrait of a women who
lives a life any of us could. What separates Lola from the mass of
people is her parents, both of whom are Auschwitz survivors. This
novel is a fascinating look at what it is like to be the child of
holocaust survivors – a notion almost none of us would be able to
comprehend without books such as this – and how being the child of
a survivor affect you, in ways that can never be imagined.
Lola Bensky is a novel with a difference and an excellent read that I would heartily recommend.
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