Summer of My German Soldier | Partridge in a Pear Tree
In the following review, Lash suggests that the explicit violence and bitterness and the implicit sex in Summer of My German Soldier would be disturbing to a twelve-year-old (the age of the heroine in the novel).
[Summer of My German Soldier seems to me likely] to disturb a reader as young as its 12-year-old heroine, because of the domestic violence and bitterness it records. And though sex does not happen in it, the heroine's vicious father is convinced that it must since his daughter has done the unthinkable for a Jewish girl and helped a German soldier to escape.
Source: Audrey Laski, "Partridge in a Pear Tree," in Times Educational Supplement, No. 3261, December 9, 1977, p 21.
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