内容简介
The five million copy bestseller and one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century.
I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart. In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival – scratching numbers into his fellow victims’ arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale – a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer – it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too. So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.
读者短评
- 没有想象的好，在真实故事基础上，不知道杜撰占多大比例，看过二战的一些记实作品后，觉得这部小说，过于失真，并且语言上有些匮乏。
- 这是个用最平实和简朴的语言讲述出来也会震撼人心的故事，但是作者在很多地方的描述有点过于单薄和简陋，是个遗憾吧。
- 花了一天时间读完了，只能说作者的文笔糟蹋了奥斯维辛的血泪。(And I know what I am saying cuz I worked with Holocaust survivors before)
作者简介
“I am a Native of New Zealand now resident in Australia, working in a large public hospital in Melbourne. For several years I studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an academy award winning Screenwriter in the U.S. In 2003, I was introduced to an elderly gentleman “who might just have a story worth telling”. The day I met Lale Sokolov changed my life, as our friendship grew and he embarked on a journey of self scrutiny, entrusting the inner most details of his life during the Holocaust. I originally wrote Lale’s story as a screenplay – which ranked high in international competitions – before reshaping it into my debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.”
