For Nas Daily fans and others seeking a pleasant journey to read in installments.
The founder of Nas Daily, a media channel that produces one-minute travel videos, chronicles his travels with entertaining gusto.
A blend of memoir and portraits of humans across cultures, this energetic debut details how Yassin, a Palestinian Israeli citizen raised in Israel, quit a job as a coder for Venmo to pursue his travels. Displeased with a conventional career, he decided to embark on a 1,000-day global journey. For each day abroad, Yassin tasked himself with uploading a video to Facebook. The narrative’s loose arrangement features colorful sketches of places as far-flung as a favela in Brazil and the streets of Malta. Amid accounts of a community recovering from a hurricane in Puerto Rico or a Syrian man who was stranded in a Malaysian airport and rescued by Canadians, the author weaves in some history lessons. Yassin’s past in Israel and his return visits home highlight his family's support. Such reflective moments intersperse with profiles of creative individuals who stand out in their communities. The author’s candor is striking, and his delight in risk-taking is infectious. Even when he conducted doubtful experiments—such as feigning to have lost his wallet to test people’s kindness—there’s little voyeurism here. The author acknowledges when his project caused discomfort and when it brought strangers together. These travels culminated in many overly familiar impressions: the divide between rich and poor; how similar people are even as we celebrate differences; and how stereotypes are dispelled if people learn about each other. However, the author’s genuine passion for digging beyond the usual tourist stops is compelling. Features on environmentalism and innovations in developing countries paint a positive portrait while certain inspiring moments are encapsulated with sentiments that sometimes come across as unintentional sound bites. This coffee-table companion to a popular website doesn't always surpass its original format, but it’s a passionate introduction to Yassin’s worldview. The contemporary, catchy voice reflects its social media roots.
For Nas Daily fans and others seeking a pleasant journey to read in installments.Pub Date: Nov. 5, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-06-293267-9
Page Count: 272
Publisher: HarperOne
Review Posted Online: Aug. 17, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2019
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered...
The incredible true story of three Jewish women who survived the Holocaust.
Priska, Rachel, and Anka were married Jewish women in their early 20s when the Nazis took control of Europe. Like millions of other Jews, they were forced to give up their normal lives, all of their belongings, and their homes. Shuttled into ghettos and then off to one of the most notorious camps, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, they suffered through the Nazis’ increasing atrocities. But these three women all held a secret: they were pregnant. They were moved from Auschwitz and ended up in Mauthausen, another notorious death camp. With facing the most horrible conditions imaginable, all three gave birth right before the Allies accepted Germany’s surrender. In this meticulously detailed account, Holden (Haatchi & Little B: The Inspiring True Story of One Boy and His Dog, 2014, etc.) compiles an enormous amount of information from interviews, letters, historical records, and personal visits to the sites where this story unfolded. The graphic history places readers in the moment and provides a sense of the enduring power of love that Priska, Rachel, and Anka had for their unborn children and for the husbands they so desperately hoped to see after the war. Even though it occurred more than 70 years ago, the story’s truth is so chillingly portrayed that it seems as if it could have happened recently. These three women and their infants survived in the face of death, and, Holden writes, “their babies went on to have babies of their own and create a second and then a third generation, all of whom continue to live their lives in defiance of Hitler’s plan to erase them from history and from memory.”
An engrossing, intense, and highly descriptive narrative chronicling the ghastly conditions three pregnant women suffered through at the hands of the Nazis.Pub Date: May 5, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-06-237025-9
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: March 28, 2015
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