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Original Title:	The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
ISBN:	0393354253 (ISBN13: 9780393354256)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jan Zabinski, Antonina Zabinski
Setting:	Poland Warsaw(Poland)
Literary Awards:	Orion Book Award (2008), One Book One San Diego (2009)

The Zookeeper's Wife

Diane Ackerman

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 71321 Users | 9464 Reviews

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Title	:	The Zookeeper's Wife
Author	:	Diane Ackerman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Movie Tie-In Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	February 17th 2017 by W. W. Norton Company (first published September 7th 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. War. World War II. Holocaust

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When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.

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All this time I thought this was a piece of fiction and was delighted to realized it's non-fiction. There's something off about telling the story as though it were fiction, sometimes slipping into novel-style storytelling and sometimes info-dumping for pages about zoology or Polish tradition or Nazi habits in what should have been footnotes. It probably reads a little easier than straight non-fiction to stylize it that, but it left me with a longing to delve more into the details of the story

one puzzle of daily life at the villa was this: How do you retain a spirit of affection and humor in a crazed, homicidal, unpredictable society? On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany, emboldened by the recently-signed Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with Stalins Soviet Union, invaded Poland. Warsaw was pummeled, then occupied. With the Nazis bizarre fixation on racial purity (which extended to animals) and hatred for Jews, it became an existential crisis merely to be Jewish in the city. Amid the carnage

I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal. Words to live by. Zookeepers Jan and Antonia Zabinski run (or used to run) the Warsaw Zoo. Shortly after Germany invaded Poland, the zoo is destroyed and most of the animals are put down. Yet, somehow the zoo remains open and ready for business - though that business may involve a slightly different purpose from the usual critter rescue.The Zabinski newest form of 'critters' are Jews and other

I really, really, really wanted to like this book. It's the true story of a Polish couple who hid Jews at their zoo in Poland during WWII. Their story itself is very heroic, but the writing style detracts from what is supposed to be the point of the book. The author is frequently sidetracked with long passages of history, details about the lives of people not relevant to the story, and lengthy descriptions of nature (I skipped a good two pages or so that just listed different types of beetles).

What a disappointment! I anxiously awaited the paperback version of this book, only to find the writing so scattered and choppy I could barely finish it. The author obviously did extensive and exhaustive research, but she kept going off on so many random tangents that finding a cohesive story is impossible.

The Zookeepers WifeI went into this book having no idea that it wasnt fiction, and that it was about Poland and WWII. I cant say it was a joy to have all this new, horrible information unfold as it read. . . it was a horror to realize the depth and breadth of a war of which I thought I at least understood the main crimes against humanity was much deeper and wider and I suspect this is a realization into which I will continually faceplant. For all the good words, good story threads, there were

Finally!!! Whew! I've owned this book for more than 5 years!!! It was passed to me from our friend Steve! I had planned to read it -- like other books --a dozen times. Quilty-as Charged: It took the Hollywood 'soon-to-be-released' movie - to procrastinate-no-longer! I knew much about this story -- but, as I said, had not actually read it myself. Author Diane Ackerman has a long list of many other books she has written- but this is my first time reading her. It reads like fiction --( wish it