David Safier

Maldito karma
David Safier
Publicado: 2007 | 229 páginas
Novela Humor

Una desternillante novela sobre el secreto de la felicidad que ya ha hecho reír a un millón de lectores en Alemania. La presentadora de televisión Kim Lange está en el mejor momento de su carrera cuando sufre un accidente y muere aplastada por el lavabo de una estación espacial rusa. En el más allá, Kim se entera de que ha acumulado mal karma a lo largo de su vida: ha engañado a su marido, ha descuidado a su hija y ha amargado a cuantos la rodean. Pronto descubre cuál es su castigo: está en un agujero, tiene dos antenas y seis patas… ¡es una hormiga! Kim no tiene ganas de ir arrastrando migas de pastel. Además, no puede permitir que su marido se consuele con otra. Sólo le queda una salida: acumular buen karma para ascender por la escalera de la reencarnación y volver a ser humana. Pero el camino para dejar de ser un insecto y convertirse en un ser bípedo es duro y está plagado de contratiempos.… (more)

28 Days follows Mira, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl who has to smuggle food for her family to survive. She soon meets a man who is involved in the resistance movement within the camp against the Nazis. Meeting him is a catalyst for her analyzing how she interacts with the world and the people around her and she starts questioning what type of person she wants to be.

It is an incredibly heavy story and is a difficult read because of the content. The violence committed by the Nazis and Polish people (and even some Jews) against the Jewish people was depicted quite graphically, so the book comes with a trigger warning for racism, antisemitism, and violence.

I did feel that the pacing of the book was a little odd. Parts of it were incredibly fast while others were very slow. While I understand putting in part of Mira's life before the 28 Days of resistance was needed for character development, it felt like the part the book wanted to focus on only happened in the last third of the book.

This isn't the type of book you can say you enjoyed reading, but it was a good and necessary read.… (more)