Aimée & Jaguar

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Unique, moving, and true this radiant love story is set against the horrific backdrop of World War II Nazi Germany When Lilly Aimee Wust, a gentile mother of four and wife of a Nazi officer, met Felice Jaguar Schragenheim, a Jew living underground in Berlin, neither could have guessed that their brief initial encounter would develop into a blazing, devoted love As the Nazi stranglehold closed in on them, Lilly and Felice found themselves fighting insurmountable odds to stay together Extraordinarily passionate and heartrending, this is a rare and personal look at the love and strength of two women whose commitment to each other defied the brutality of their time. New Read Books Aimée & Jaguar By Erica Fischer – kino-fada.fr Although I agree with all the criticisms lobbed at this book by other reviewers below, I nonetheless give it 5 stars because it fascinated me, due simply to the heartbreaking, scandalous, and improbable tale underlying it.As others have written, Aimee may be flighty and appear not take the plight of her lover seriously, but I feel it is easy to judge her retrospectively I don t believe she behaves differently than many people in the throes of a deep infatuation however, given that she is infat Although I agree with all the criticisms lobbed at this book by other reviewers below, I nonetheless give it 5 stars because it fascinated me, due simply to the heartbreaking, scandalous, and improbable tale underlying it.As others have written, Aimee may be flighty and appear not take the plight of her lover seriously, but I feel it is easy to judge her retrospectively I don t believe she behaves differently than many people in the throes of a deep infatuation however, given that she is infatuated with a Jew living underground in Nazi Germany, her foibles seem muchweighty to the reader The book is heavy on quotes from love letters, which I sk...it was amazing. I came to this book from the movie, and while I started to read it imagining the actresses of the movie as the characters in the book, I ended up with having the real pictures of Aim e and Jaguar in my head while reading there are heartbreakingly good photos of them at the end of the book at times it was tough, cause even though I knew how this tragic story was gonna end, I was still hoping, together with Aim e the most tragic thing about this book though is that Jaguar s fa it was amazing. I came to this book from the movie, and while I started to read it imagining the actresses of the movie as the characters in the book, I ended up with having the real pictures of Aim e and Jaguar in my head while reading there are heartbreakingly good photos of them at the end of the book at times it was tough, cause even though I knew how this tragic story was gonna end, I was still hoping, t...Wonderful 3.5 5 STARSHow fortuitous that I should read this book three weeks before the United States Supreme Court s landmark decision on same sex marriage I m unclear how it landed on my To Read shelf I thinks Goodread s parent company algorithms suggested it to me while I was reading the Miseducation of Cameron Post I loved that story too Anyway, I m usually not drawn to love stories or romances but this one piqued my interest with great earnest My unending fascination with Wonderful 3.5 5 STARSHow fortuitous that I should read this book three weeks before the United States Supreme Court s landmark decision on same sex marriage I m unclear ho...I put off reading this book for six years, because I expected to be emotionally devastated The story should be devastating I m not sure why, when I finally read it, Ior less responded with an emotional shrug Is it the poor translation Perhaps the original author was a less than compelling writer I cannot pinpoint it I suspect the answer may lie in the epilogue, where Erica Fischer tells about her experience researching the book She was frustrated, eventually even hostile towards the I put off reading this book for six years, because I expected to be emotionally devastated The story should be devastating I m not sure why, when I finally read it, Ior less responded with an emotional shrug Is it the poor translation Perhaps the original author was a less than compelling writer I cannot pinpoint it I suspect the answer may lie in the epilogue, where Erica Fischer tells about her experience researching the book She was frustrated, eventually even hostile towards the elderly Lilly who does, I admit, sound like a person I would not care for Lilly clung all her life to that year with Felice, and seemed to forget or ignore everything that didn t fit into her neat personal narrative Initial Nazi sympathies, the fact that Felice was too good and too vibrant for her, and, most frustrating of all, her unwillingness to move past her wartime experiences and live in her present.These days we would most likely put Lilly in...I dont even know where to start with this But all I can say that this story was both soo beautiful, heartbreaking and terrifying I actually started it this summer, and then had to take a break because it made me feel too much, seriously I highly recommend it and Its such an important story, and these women deserve to have their story told But I also have to say that reading about what all these people went through during this time, all the loss, hate and fear, made me sick So I needed to ta I dont even know where to start with this But all I can say that this story was both soo beautiful, heartbreaking and terrifying I actually started it this summer, and then had to take a break because it made me feel too much, seriously I highly recommend it and Its such an important story, and these women deserve to have their story told But I also have to say that reading about what all these people went through during this time, all the l...As with any WWII story involving a Jewish person living in Germany, it s bound to be sad I felt connected to the characters, but the author s style really made this a tough read The story was set up like a documentary, only in book form There would be bits of prose, excerpts of diaries and letters and then straight dialogues from interviews These elements were not synthesized in a way that made reading it enjoyable This is a story of a young German mother who meets a Jewish woman and begins As with any WWII story involving a Jewish person living in Germany, it s bound to be sad I felt connected to the characters, but the author s style really made this a tough read The story was set up like a documentary, only in book form There would be bits of prose, excerpts of diaries and letters and then straight dialogues from interviews These elements were not synthesized in a way that made reading it enjoyable This is a story of a you...I ve wanted to read this for years I came across the story in a magazine and found it heartbreaking So to say I feel disillusioned is something of an understatement.My 3 star rating is solely for the love story and the girls themselves What I found very difficult to swallow was the author s clear dislike disdain for Lily a nice attitude for a biographer Yes, I can understand her anger towards Germans of the period, but seeing as Lily went some way towards redeeming herself, I found her host I ve wanted to read this for years I came across the story in a magazine and found it heartbreaking So to say I feel disillusioned is something of an understatement.My 3 star rating is solely for the love story and ...I ve never felt engrossed in a book for a long time until I entered the the world of Aim e Jaguar Set in WWII, a Nazi mother and a Jewish woman fall in love in bleak and horrific Nazi Germany Women s stories during the war tend to be ignored and they seem to be rather non existent How mucha story between two women, on opposite grounds, falling in love It is a breath of fresh air to read something that recounts this Surprisingly, the copy I bought from a book sale only have 362 p I ve never felt engrossed in a book for a long time until I entered the the world of Aim e Jaguar Set in WWII, a Nazi mother and a Jewish woman fall in love in bleak and horrific Nazi Germany Women s stories during the war tend to be ignored and they seem to be rather non existent How mucha story between two women, on opposite grounds, falling in love It is a breath of fresh air to read something that recounts this Surprisingly, the copy I bought from a book sale only have 362 pages which had the Author s infamous Epilogue cut oth...I would rather experience great unhappiness and be destroyed by it than live in moderate happiness to a moderate endI am deeply unnerved by this book and sadly disappointed First, I absolutely adored this story, and I hate myself for hyping it up so much after watching the movie After hunting down the English edition for so long sadly my Deutsch is, admittedly, too schei e to read the original German, despite my many years of study , I suppose I sim...The World War II time period is one of my favorites to read about and study, so I was very curious to read this title While I do not think the author s writing was very good quite dry and boring , the story was astounding In none of my other reading, courses or film watching have I heard a story from a similar lens The lesbian angle is new of course, but so were all of the details about the Jews who managed to keep 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Aimée & Jaguar
  • English
  • 18 February 2018
  • Paperback
  • 274 pages
  • 1555834507
  • Erica Fischer
  • Aimée & Jaguar