The Storyteller -Jodi Picoult -Number one International #Bestseller

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An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from number-one bestselling author Jodi Picoult.

Sage Singer is a young woman who has been damaged by her past. Her solitary night work as a baker allows her to hide from the world and focus her creative energies on the beautiful bread she bakes.

Yet she finds herself striking up an unlikely friendship. Josef Weber is a quiet, grandfatherly man, well respected in the community; everyone's favourite retired teacher and Little League coach.

One day he asks Sage for a favour: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses.

Then Josef tells her that he deserves to die - and why.
What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed horrendous acts ever truly redeem themselves? Is forgiveness yours to offer if you aren't the person who was wronged? And most of all - if Sage even considers his request - would it be murder, or justice?

 

Here's the Positive Reviews:

Truly astonishing, will keep you thinking for weeks...

ByNicShef

Jodi Picoult's "The Storyteller" will take you unexpectedly down unknown paths and into unchartered territories . You will stop often to catch your breath and be blown away. The book starts innocently enough like all of Jodi's books it creeps up on you. A woman, Sage Singer, disfigured from the car accident that killed her mother, joins a grief support group. Her grandmother is a survivor of Auschwitz. She strikes up an unlikely friendship with an quiet, unassuming, elderly man - Josef Weber. As their friendship evolves, he confides to her that he was an SS officer during the war. And then he asks her to help him die. Strap yourself in, because the roller coaster ride starts there.

Here's the Most Critical Review:

I love Jodi Picoult books but found this one hard going

BySharon Ayrison 26 March 2015

I love Jodi Picoult books but found this one hard going. I found it so difficult I didn't end up reading to the end. Perhaps for me, the content was just a bit too distressing. Another friend had tears when reading it.

Most Helpful Reviews:

The Holocaust was the genocide of millions of Jews led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party throughout German-occupied territory during World War II. Ultimately a systematic state-sponsored murder in Hitler's pursuit of his dream to create the perfect Aryan Race, Jewish children did not escape this persecution and approximately one million became statistics along with two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men.

A huge fan of this prolific author, I was quite enthralled when an Advance Reading Copy of this book arrived on my doorstep and couldn't wait to sink my proverbial teeth into it. Through her extensive research and in blending fact with fiction, Jodi Picoult has done it again and brings us a powerful story of one woman's survival, one man's search for redemption of his guilt at the atrocities he helped commit and the moral dilemma evoked by a young woman merely because of her heritage.

Sage Singer is a loner. Born into a Jewish family and a baker by profession, she has a scar on her face as a result of a car accident and prefers to hide away in the bakery kitchen of a friend where she bakes delicious bread. She befriends Josef Weber, a ninety-five-year-old widower and former schoolteacher through a grief group they both attend and they soon strike up an unlikely friendship when he begins to frequent the little café attached to the bakery.

When Josef asks Sage to kill him, along with the reasons for his request, she is caught up in her own moral dilemma, consequently enlisting the help of Leo Stein, an FBI Agent with a special interest in tracing former Nazi SS Officers guilty of war crimes, specifically those who carried out the heinous massacres against the Jews in the concentration camps.

Together, Leo and Sage embark on a journey which sees Josef relating his story to Sage, and Leo finally persuading Sage's grandmother, Minka, a modern-day Scheherazade, to recount her own tragic story in the hopes that a testimony from her will assist in having Josef deported and tried in a court of law for his unspeakable crimes against humanity.

From the depths of the Polish ghetto in Lodz to the terrifying visuals of the gas chambers used for the purpose of systematic mass extermination contained in Auschwitz, Jodi, through Minka's character, has found the perfect pace for the subject matter at hand and I found myself in a time warp, visually transported by her storytelling ability.

5.0 out of 5 starsVivid and Disturbing with a Brilliantly Executed Plot