I had been interested in reading this for quite some time and I finally had the chance to when it came up in the book club. What readers need to keep in mind when reading this story is that this was one story out of millions during the Shoah. Lale shares his story as an older man about how he found a woman he declared to himself that he would marry if they survived. It is a romanticized story and it shows some of the devastating details of Shoah as it also glosses over some important details. I am going to be reading the rest of her books but there are other authors I go to first for books on the Shoah.