A review by jmatkinson1
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood
4.0
1922, Paul rebels against his father, a manufacturer, and goes to study art at the newly opened and radical Bauhaus school in Weimar. there he falls in with a disparate group of fellow students whose lives, loves and art are influenced by the Bauhaus, Germany between the wars and the rise of the Nazis.
Although I found the first third of the book difficult to engage with, by halfway I was really interested. I think this had a lot to do with the way that Weimar Germany was depicted and the slow, insidious rise of the Nazi party. The deprivations of life in 1920s Germany were depicted well, hyperinflation was astonishing. Although the fate of each student was mapped out from the start, story was still gripping and ultimately very sad.
Although I found the first third of the book difficult to engage with, by halfway I was really interested. I think this had a lot to do with the way that Weimar Germany was depicted and the slow, insidious rise of the Nazi party. The deprivations of life in 1920s Germany were depicted well, hyperinflation was astonishing. Although the fate of each student was mapped out from the start, story was still gripping and ultimately very sad.