Kelsey W. reviewed on 11/12/2010

The Zookeeper's Wife is a story about a woman who has no significance to history and, worse, no apparent impact in her own damn story. At least half of the book - probably more - consists of interesting side notes on things happening AROUND Antonina, such as what her husband was doing in the Polish resistance, or tangentially related to the zoo due to various Nazi projects. The portions of the story that are about Antonina are, quite frankly, incredibly boring as her sole role in the story consists of staying at home and keeping up appearances at the house. No doubt an important role as the family hid Jews and resistance fighters, but there is simply not enough there to fill a whole book with.

The most valuable part of the book is probably the bibliography, which one might use to find other, more interesting books, about related subjects.

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