83 Baumstrasse

Anna and Lena neighbors on the same floor in a Hamburgian apartment-building on Baumstrasse are the base for the life-stories of the residents on the floor to illuminate and fade out. The two girls one Christian and the other Jewish grow up in innocent magical friendship in an era when the simplest turns to unbearable.The events in the story do not linger at the girls childhood; they swing back and forth with life stories of the residents in three apartments. They take you to different periods to Odessa Cairo Vienna Hamburg and more.The novel is a fruit of the authors (an ex-Iranian Israeli) contemplations on Holocaust. The author deals with the hideous tragedy from an unconventional angle. She brings the reader to ponder on reasons that bring human beings to be the most savage beasts.From the Epilogue: When I first visited the beautiful city of Hamburg I condemned God who had repaid the Germans savagery and brutality so lavishly. Every elderly walking on sidewalks was a brutal Nazi in my eye... Were those German soldiers not sons of mothers? Did they not feel pain homesickness fear hunger and cold? Or maybe they were just emotionless war machines!This is Namdars second Novel. The first Snobar Khanoms Gold Coins became a hit in three languages Hebrew Farsi and English. The book was awarded by the Israeli culture Minister in 2015.