A Frost in the Night

Eva #1

by Edith Baer

"So good you have to read it twice." -- Joan Blos

It is Germany in 1932, and Hitler is rising to power. This critical place and time in modern history is poignantly re-created through the observations of a young Jewish girl named Eva, who is caught up in the sense of dread shared by the adults around her. Edith Baer has written a novel distilled from memory, love, loss, and sorrow which depicts a girl's impressions of a nation beginning to destroy itself and an entire way of life. A Frost in the Night was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and won the Arnold Gingrich Award for Literature when it was first published in 1980.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Childrens, World War II

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 12, 1980

Reviews

[Todd Wittenmyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the story of a Jewish family (specifically, Eva and Frau Bentheim) and some of their friends and acquaintances, prior to Hitler being named Chancellor of Germany! The foreboding is ever present in this novel! Some were in disbelief, while others braced for what was to come! It is a fitting novel considering what is going on in the world right now! This was a Buddy Read with Stephanie Dickinson. Her Booktube channel is Bookstrict9Tribute! Thanks for the Buddy Read Stephanie and for suggesting this one! I gave it 4 stars! Cheers everyone!

[Allie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't finish this book, so I probably have no right to judge it, but I'm going to anyway. ;D
I stopped this book because it was just plain old boring. The author included to many unimportant details, and so it made the story line and important characters hard to grasp. Long story short, it was boring and hard to understand.

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such an amazing look at the lead up to Hitler being chosen from a child’s perspective.

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved how detailed and interesting this was written and I absolutely adored most of the characters, but throughout the book I kept thinking when there will happen something and in my opinion it could've been much more longer with some interesting plot in it. The end came so abruptly that it kind of felt unrealistic to me. All in all, it's an really interesting book with lovely characters in it, much information about the history of the second world war and discussions about art, music and important people from past.

[Jobiska (Cindy)]

I've read several memoirs of children in the Holocaust, but this one addresses the period before WWII (begins in 1932) and thus enriches the retellings of that time period.

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