A review by k5tog
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun

2.0

I just didn’t enjoy this book. It is the story of a family self-exiled from Hitler’s Germany before WWII, as told through the eyes of a child. The father is an author who drinks too much, spends too much, borrows too much, yet somehow is liked by people. The mother is weak and fearful and accommodating to the extreme to her husband’s whims as the family hops from place to place. And the child observes all of this and tries to make sense of her life. I found the book depressing.