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Book Title : Charlotte Author : David Foenkinos Genre : Biography (Retelling) ISBN : 9781782117940 Publisher : Canongate Publication : 2017 Pages : 224 Binding : Hardback Plot : Charlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war - but there is something exceptional about her. She has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming in to her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, a Jew in Berlin, her life is narrowing - she is kept from her art, torn from her love and her family, chased from her country. And still she is not safe, not from the madness that has hunted her family, or the one gripping Europe . . . My Rating : 5 ☆'s Review : Charlotte is not just a Jewish girl, she is not just an artist either - Charlotte is an obsession! Her story is laced with melancholy but that depression is a...