A group of residents in a Jewish retirement home are putting on a production of Hamlet and there is much fun in their rivalries and absurdities. The narrator cast as the Ghost but aspiring to play Hamlet gradually revisits his own life trying to find peace and redemption as he confronts how ambition and vanity led his family to the concentration camps. Chosen for my book group and second time round for me, it proved as funny, moving and compelling as before.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 100 Spring 2021 ) |
