Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39728 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Synopsis
Rebekka and Ruda are twins and have not seen each other since they were separated in Auschwitz, both to suffer at the hands of Dr Josef Mengele. A terrible murder takes place and a police investigation draws the sisters into a web of coincidence, fear and violence. By the author of "Widows".

Customer Reviews

I'm not sure about this one.
Not a typical plot line for Lynda La Plante, this one. She gave it a good try but I'm not convinced she totally pulled it off. Twins seperated during the holocaust, reunited later on in life. They have followed very different paths but are both still haunted by their experiences in the camps.

I quite enjoyed this book and it is moving at times, particularly when recounting the girl's experiences at the hands of Dr Joseph Mengals. These characters may not be real, but the "angel of death" certainly was and his cruelty and evil knew no bounds.

But- I did not find either of the twin's particularly likeable. After all, one of them is a murderer and the other a wealthy selfish baroness. Their husbands are equally unlikeable- feckless weak men out for themselves only.

Yes, it does keep you turning the pages, but is also extremely unrealistic. I'm referring here to the lion tamer element of it NOT the camps. Lunda La Plante does paint an effective and realistic picture of these but the twins themselves are like something straight out of a Mills and Boon novel.

You will enjoy this book but it is not the masterpiece other reviewers would have you believe.

Disturbingly gripping
I'd never read Lynda LaPlante before this, though I'm familiar with the Prime Suspect TV-series based on her characters. Going by 'Prime Suspect' I expected 'Entwined' to be gritty; I had no idea to expect a story that would affect me as much as it did. This is a deeply painful tale about twins girls interned as toddlers in a Nazi concentration camp and how what they endured there at the hands of Josef Mengele impacted the rest of their lives, not least their separation when Auschwitz was eventually liberated. (Mengele was WWII's most infamous concentration camp doctor, nicknamed the Angel of Death by those he tortured.) 'Entwined' weaves past and present together hauntingly and heartbreakingly with characters all too human in their frailties.

Intriguing
A fanatstic book that you cant put down, a great combination of disturbing facts combined with great fiction. A story telling the lives of twins seperated at the end of world war 2 when they were released from a nazi concentration camp. There are some complex characters and different sub plots that all come together in the end, as well as intriguing mystery and interesting twists i.e the detectives senile father (I won't tell you why so as not to spoil it) The book also gives a great insight into the nazi regime and also the effects on Berlin of knocking down of the wall - an education!