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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Son of Dust. Mar 16, booklady rated it it was amazing. Prescott , an Anglo-Catholic, has written a story within the context of the Catholic religious mores of eleventh century northern France and her characters have to be viewed as such, i.

Catholic Anglo and Roman readers will find themselves right at home, despite the intervening millennium. Twenty-first century readers who try to impose modern values and a hindsight perspective on history, however, will not understand the tension which holds this tightly wrought tale together. At its heart, Son of Dust is about the battle between spirit and flesh, a forbidden desire of a man and woman for each other.

Which will win out and at what cost? How many will suffer and forfeit their lives as a result of this overwhelming passion? The story of Fulcan Geroy and his quest to make Alde his own is a story which will grab you and hold you enthralled until the very last page—and that is no exaggeration. I literally did not know until then how it was going to end.

I was captivated. Initially the number of characters and the unusual similarity of their names create some difficulty in keeping everyone straight. After the first chapter or so, this is no longer an obstacle. Far superior to Ivanhoe or others by Sir Walter Scott—however enjoyable they may be to read—simply from the perspective of accuracy in portraying the Catholic religion.

View all 7 comments. Jun 22, Wanda rated it really liked it Shelves: , real-books. The characters are portrayed true to life and true to the time. The situations in which the characters find themselves are ones in which individuals would find themselves in today's life, also. View 2 comments. Jan 08, Janice rated it it was amazing Shelves: read My favorite book of The book did not end as I had expected, but, upon reflection I realized that it was a conclusion infused with redemptive grace.

Oct 28, Ryan rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. Prescott weaves a beautiful masterpiece of sin and redemption, and shows how God works in the most unlikely ways, in the lives of those who will let Him surprise them. Jan 21, Danielle rated it liked it Shelves: read-this-year. Gift from my husband. Christine rated it really liked it Aug 11, Robert O'keefe rated it really liked it Oct 07, Donna L.

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Top review. You cannot take the Holocaust lightly in film. Some have tried, but it fails. Instead of recounting it in a sombre documentary-esque way such as Schindler's List or even the gut-wrenching approach Alain Resnais takes to Night and Fog, we are utterly present in its unpredictable and relentless horror. While most Holocaust films struggle between their representation of order and chaos, often deciding to switch between the two when necessary, Son of Saul finds the ideal balance, showing these small shards of order within the chaos.

The most fascinating idea of its premise is to show the prisoners appointed with the tasks of guiding victims into the gas chambers, organising their belongings and then cleaning up after them. It's a well oiled and melancholic cog, while we know every hard effort to scrub and pull is in vain as their eventual death is only postponed and not evaded.

Our narrative follows him for only two days, but that's all we need to know to get a gruelling snapshot of his minute-to-minute struggles. When a boy nearly survives the gas but is pronounced dead shortly after, Saul recognises him — at least on some level, as it's never clear if the boy is his kin or not, but it is apparent he never took care of his own when he had the chance — and takes him as his son.

To himself, he insists on giving his son a clandestine burial which must be officiated by a rabbi. Salvaging the body, locating a rabbi and performing even a small burial is near impossible despite them being in essentially a mass graveyard.

Meanwhile, his peers are plotting an escape along with destroying the crematorium and will require Saul's help. However, he cannot assist both futile missions simultaneously. The film has an incredibly unique approach to the concentration camps. Shot on a tightly framed 35mm hand-held camera, the photography is almost always focused on Saul, leaving the atrocities offscreen or out of focus, but often vividly audible.

If there is any complaint, it's that the editing suffers from its long-take construction, but the sound design is an absolute masterclass.

While he's apparently numb, he's always fully invested in the moment. No scene is quite as hard-hitting as when we watch Saul listen to the screams of people dying in the chambers while he waits outside their doors. It's his one break from being forced to work, and he'll immediately have to remove bodies when it's finished.

The way the film builds these routines are very intimate and exhausting and despite being a fictionalised story, it feels very real. Those rituals of removals and cleaning are contrasted with the Jewish rituals that guide their faith, and especially Saul's burial plan. But beyond the intense yet ambiguous horrors that show the cruellest side of humanity there's ever been in the modern world — despite us never getting close to a Nazi beside brief encounters — the film finds its emotional core in small gestures of compassion.

Nobody is required to help Saul, especially in knowing the dangers involved, but there's an unspoken bond between every prisoner to help one another regardless. When he finds the rabbi who agrees to perform the service, it's not powerful because they've been stripped down and Nazis are murdering new arrivals around them — nothing compares to the experience of this scene — it's powerful because the rabbi says yes in spite of that.

If they can redeem one shred of morality, it is a small victory and triumph of faith. Saul never lets go of that idea, even when he risks sabotaging the escape mission inadvertently.

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