In the Garden of Beasts - Behind the Story
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“What was the inspiration behind the creation of this book?”
Larson was in a lull after the publication of his book, The Devil in the White City, when he found the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer while browsing in a bookshop. It was a book he had always intended to read and he thought it was the right time for him to do that, since he was still thinking of what subject matter to write about in his next book. He got engrossed in the book because Shirer had actually been in Germany during the Nazi Regime. He had been able to write his personal experiences as a war correspondent in Germany for six years, and use captured Third Reich documents of key participants. He had been able to meet Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, among others, and Larson wondered how it could have been for Shirer to have met all these people without knowing what would happen next as we knew it now. He wondered how it really would have felt for Shirer to experience the darkness falling over Germany as events unfolded.
Larson said this “wet his imagination.” He was a journalist/historian/novelist and Shirer was a war correspondent so this was very attractive to someone like him. He began thinking of writing about Nazi Germany.
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When I pick up a book, from the first letter to the last, I am often completely enveloped in the novel - I’m laughing, rejoicing, fighting, and crying, side by side next to the characters. Even long after the book is finished, I found myself reminiscing about the scenes and characters over and over again in my head like a broken tape recorder – I was left high and very dry.
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Book Title: In the Garden of Beasts
Author Name: Erik Larson
Time it was written: 2006 - 2009
Place it was written: Seattle
First publication: May 10, 2011
Publisher: Crown, First Edition
Narrator: Third Person Narrator
Point of view: Third Person Omniscient
Tone: Clear, Concise, Fascinating, Powerful, Poignant, Suspenseful
Tense: Past
Setting (Time): 1933 - 1990
Setting (Place): Berlin, Germany; Prague, Russia; Washington and Chicago
Protagonist: William E. Dodd, Martha Dodd
Theme: War, Politics, Intrigue, Prejudice, Injustice
Motif: Anti-Semitism, Torture, Assassination, Politics, Horror
Who’s the author anyways?
Erik Larson is an American writer, journalist and novelist. He was born on January 3, 1954 in Brooklyn but he grew up in Freeport, Long Island. He has taken residence in various states since leaving Long Island—Bristol, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, twice in San Francisco, and twice also in Baltimore—before finally settling in Seattle. He took Russian History at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude in 1976. After taking a break for a year, he attended the Columbia