yeshe zangmo

THIS is a book I wholeheartedly recommend. The author manages to tell a complicated family story, over several generations, linking it to recent history, with wonderful clarity and vivacity. I want to tell her about my family, sharing stories with a friend; particularly about a cousin who like one of her uncles, believed as an ex-solider in WWl on the German side, and not particularly interested in religion, he would be safe there - and like her sweet Jacques, of course was not. She also makes it plain that a number of European countries shared German antisemitism, and I can attest to that too; alas, it is still current as we have recently been reminded. But the book in spite of such horrors, is anything but dispiriting. It is rather a poean to life beauty happiness and family. Thank you, Hadley Freeman.