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A fantastic, propulsive novel based on the true account of a family of Polish Jews who are separated at the start of the Second World Battle, determined to endure - and to reunite. It's the spring of 1939, and three years of the Kurc family are doing their finest to reside normal lives, even as the darkness of war increases closer. The converse throughout the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships intimidating Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe can be inescapable, and the Kurcs will be flung to the much corners of the world, each desperately trying to get around his or her own way to safety. As you sibling is required into exile, another tries to flee the continent while some struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on unfilled stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by concealing as gentiles in simple sight. Influenced by an unwavering will to endure and by the fear that they could never see each other again, the Kurcs must count on expectation, ingenuity, and interior strength to persevere. A novel of breathtaking sweep and scope that spans five continents and six years and transports listeners from the jazz clubs of Paris to Krakow's most brutal jail to the slots of Northern Africa and the farthest gets to of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Blessed Ones demonstrates how when confronted with the 20th century's darkest moment, the human nature could find ways to endure and even triumph.
