Friday 9 June 2017

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

For seventy years, Josef Weber has been hiding in plain sight.
He is a pillar of his local community.
He is also a murderer.
When Josef decides to confess, it is to Sage Singer, a young woman who trusts him as her friend. What she hears shatters everything she thought she knew and believed.
As Sage uncovers the truth from the darkest horrors of war, she must follow a twisting trail between terror and mercy, betrayal and forgiveness, love - and revenge.

Throughout this book there is a story within a story coupled with the different voices of the main characters. This is seamlessly done and all comes together perfectly.

At times it was harrowing to read as all books dealing with the holocaust are. However, Ms Picoult treats her characters and subject matter with an intelligent sensitivity which made me want to read on in this excellent novel. In fact, I slowed my reading at times, partly in order to allow myself to process some of the shocking scenes in this book and also because the characters were easy to engage with and I wanted to spend the time getting to know them.

Well researched and written with great care, Ms. Picoult has created a novel which is heartbreaking yet redemptive and deals with difficult issues. Thought provoking and meticulously considered, this book has the capacity to stay with me for a long time after reading it.
ISBN:  9781444766660
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks



About the Author:


Jodi Picoult is the author of twenty-three novels, including the number 1 New York Times bestsellers Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Between the Lines, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper

She studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism - and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent - led her to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard to pursue a master’s in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. 

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