Biography, memoir, history - the life of Adolfo Kaminsky
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life, by Sarah Kaminsky, DoppelHouse Press, 2016.
First paragraph:
Prologue
"Since you want to know everything, tell me what you think you know about my life. For example, when did you learn that I was in the Resistance?"
To be honest, I don't know. Even less about you being a forger. If we'd stayed in Algeria I might never have known about the Second World War. For me you were the Mujahid, as they say."
"But afterwards, in France, you knew?"
"Not right away. You didn't talk to us about it. I grew up thinking I was the daughter of a social caseworker who helped rehabilitate young delinquents, found work for them, taught them photography. But by keeping my ears open when the grown-ups were talking I got some hints, in bits and pieces...."
Book description:
Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. (publisher)
Based on the first paragraphs in the Prologue, would you keep reading?
Meme: Every Tuesday First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros are hosted by Bibliophile By the Sea. Share the first paragraph sometimes two, of a book you are reading or plan to read soon.
First paragraph:
Prologue
"Since you want to know everything, tell me what you think you know about my life. For example, when did you learn that I was in the Resistance?"
To be honest, I don't know. Even less about you being a forger. If we'd stayed in Algeria I might never have known about the Second World War. For me you were the Mujahid, as they say."
"But afterwards, in France, you knew?"
"Not right away. You didn't talk to us about it. I grew up thinking I was the daughter of a social caseworker who helped rehabilitate young delinquents, found work for them, taught them photography. But by keeping my ears open when the grown-ups were talking I got some hints, in bits and pieces...."
Book description:
Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. (publisher)
Based on the first paragraphs in the Prologue, would you keep reading?
Meme: Every Tuesday First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros are hosted by Bibliophile By the Sea. Share the first paragraph sometimes two, of a book you are reading or plan to read soon.
I'm interested in stories that take place during World War II, so this sounds like a book I'd enjoy. I like the comment about keeping her ears open when grown-ups are talking. It rings true. Kids pick up on more than we know!
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I think the book market is saturated with WWII books, I tend to pass on these. Hope that you like this.
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