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by: Diane Ackerman  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $21.86 You Save: $8.09 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 940.5318350943841 EAN: 9781602834774 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 1602834776 Label: BBC Audiobooks America Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks America Number Of Items: 9 Publication Date: September 09, 2008 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Studio: BBC Audiobooks America Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Amazon.com Review: Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The ZookeeperÂ’s Wife. Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textured portrait of a natural world that few of us would recognize. The similarities end there, however, as Ackerman explores how that sense of natural order imploded under the Nazi occupation of Poland. Jan and Antonina Zabiniski--keepers of the Warsaw Zoo who sheltered Jews from the Warsaw ghetto--serve as Ackerman's lens to this moment in time, and she weaves their experiences and reflections so seamlessly into the story that it would be easy to read the book as Antonina's own miraculous memoir. Jan and Antonina's passion for life in all its diversity illustrates ever more powerfully just how narrow the Nazi worldview was, and what tragedy it wreaked. The ZookeeperÂ’s Wife is a powerful testament to their courage and--like Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise--brings this period of European history into intimate view. --Anne Bartholomew Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Forgotten Piece of History (to many general readers)My sister gave me this book for Christmas, saying it was one of the best books she had read in some time. I was fascinated by her description, and started the book the next day. I finished it the next morning. I found it eminently readable and fascinating. I was a history major in college, and had no problem with what one reviewer, at least, thought of as "precious turns of phrase." In fact, I hadn't even noticed them. I would have, as I have a tendency to start rereading a paragraph when I ... Read More Rating:  - I am enjoying this book more than any others in recent years.It is written well, has knowlege and insight based on true events. I highly recommend this to others. Rating:  - bad writingGosh I was so excited to get started reading this book. It is a compelling, heartbreaking story but I found it poorly written. She seemed to be just writing about whatever she felt like. Was it fiction? Was it nonfiction? What parts were taken from a diary? Ahhh! I agree that another writer could have made this story so much more alive and cohesive. It is sad that this story was mangled. Rating: - Great readI loved this book. I have always enjoyed stories about the war and how people survived and help each other. I'm also a big animal lover so I could understand caring deeping about the animals. Rating:  - Worthy subject, unworthy bookIt is sad to find this story of wartime heroism in Warsaw such a failure. Ms. Ackerman, whose work rarely disappoints, has created an ungainly cross between her usual wide-ranging analysis and a form of biography which serves neither function well. Zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who surely merit a better testimony to their struggle to preserve human and animal life under Nazi occupation, seem remote--Ms. Ackerman gets in her own way trying to tell their story by interrupting it at critical ... Read More 
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