One Hundred Miracles
By Zuzana Růžičková (with Wendy Holden)
Bloomsbury, 368pp, £18.99/$25
Holocaust survivor stories follow a regrettably (in every sense) familiar pattern, so you tend to know what’s coming next. And it’s not usually a comfort read. But these are stories that demand persistent telling, if only to remind us of how fragile our collective claim to civilised society can be.
And though One Hundred Miracles may not, as literature, rank high among the landmarks of the genre, it’s a worthwhile addition for anybody interested in music because it tells the story of the camps through the experience of a woman who survived them to become a world-class keyboard player.
