If I Should Die Before I Wake

"If I Should Die Before I Wake" is now by far my favorite book. It is a sentimental story about a 16-year-old neo-nazi named Hilary and how her life crosses paths with the life of a young Jewish girl living in Europe during World War I named Chana. When Hilary gets in a car accident with her boyfriend Brad she finds herself in a coma at a Jewish hospital. As she struggles for her life she passes over from the views of her life to Chana's. As Chana, Hilary sees the many horrible and emotionally terrorizing things that the Nazis did to the Jews. Many of Chana's family members and friends are killed. This book gives a very descriptive, mind altering explanation of the concentration camps and the brutal deaths of the Jews. After seeing this Hilary realizes how wrong the Nazis were and changes her views about Jews. This book was very passionate and I recommend it for anyone who likes a good tearjerker because this book will definetly make you cry. Han Nolan did an excellent job of portraying the realities of the Holocaust.

If i Should Die Before i Wake is a Holocaust book. It's a great book but it can be a little confusing at first. It can be confusing because the author switches on and off telling about two girls' lives. Hilary is a German girl in her mid-teens. She's a Neonazi. Then while riding with her boy friend on his motorcycle they crash. Hilary is seriously injured and is sent to a Jewish hospital, where she lies unconscious. In the hospital bed next to Hilary is Chana, an older woman. She's Jewish and went through a concentration camp and survived. Hilary then has flashbacks of Chana's life. (flashbacks like she is Chana) This experience could change her life and veiws forever. A scene in the book that stuck out in my mind is when Chana's father stops working to rest. The Nazi's drape him over a tree limb and taunt him. Chana is walking by from her day at work for the Nazi's when she sees her father. She offers to do his work so he can rest. The Nazi's agree. Chana is in the middle of doing her father's work when she hears a shot. The Nazi's shot her father dispite her efforts.

Han Nolan has a very gifted way in writing If i should die before i wake. Im not going to summarize this book because so many people have done that already but i will say this: this book is the greatest book i have read on this topic since daniels story. The author lets one live in Chana's shoes and she does it in such a unique way....As the mood of the book changes so does the readers point of veiw. after reading this novel for me it gave life a new meaning. Each breath i took meant more than ever before and every time i say "im hungry" i think of those who were starving during the holocaust(sp). The author of this book has let us remember what was of the past and taught us never ever to forget. If the young adults that read this book do not feel as i do it is ok. But atleast some1 has written a book to let us not to forget about this horrible time in our world! We must teach our kids and them teach theirs so that our world NEVER forgets. Nolan has let the reader hear the crys for help and reminded us that life could be worste. I was filled with sorrow after reading this book and questions with answers that might never be revealed such as why the jews? In the intro. the author dedicates the novel to family and then says " and to 6 million jews whose faces i never knew but whose voice i some how heard" i am greatful that she too has let us hear their voice. This book deserves every price to be given and the authors talent should not go unknown. This book doesn't deserve 5 stars it deserves the 6 million starts of david that died along with the people whom stood with pride and wore their star keeping faith and dieing as a result in the holocaust....WE MUST NEVER FORGET!

If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan is an excellent Holocaust book. It tells the story of an anti-Jew girl named Hilary, who, after being in an accident is placed in a Jewish hospital. With her Christian mother by her side, she struggles between life and death. Every once in a while she goes into a sleep where she dreams of being a Jewish girl named Chana living during the Holocaust. She endures the loss of her family and being sent to a concentration camp. When she wakes up, she realizes just how hard the Jews have it.
This book is written in a unique way of going back and forth between Hilary and Chana. It really is a great book and it deserves more than five stars.

This book is the best book I've ever read concerning the holocaust. From the first page I was hooked on this book. I couldn't put it down and to be honest I was sad when it was done! I felt like I was there with Hilary/Chana, the experience felt so real. I recommend this book to EVERYONE especially people who are interested in the holocaust. Han Nolan wrote with such description it seems like she lived through the experience herself. I LOVE IT! It's a must BUY!!!!!

"If I Should Die Before I Wake" is a great and exiting book. It talks about a girl named Hilary who is a neo-natzi. Hilary gets into a motorcycle acident and finds herself in a Jewish hospital. This book is great because of the way it swithes between characters. While Hilary is in the hospital she dreams about a jewish girl named Chana. You she what Chana goes through and how she struggels to survive with everything that happens to her. Hilary will start to change and you she how her feelings and thoughts change about jewish people. This is a great book that makes to cry somtimes and laugh the next. I recomend you read this book today you will love it.

If your looking for something in the area of non-fiction meets history this is definatly the most ideal book for your cause. For parents looking for the alternative route to guide your children away for comic books and into the world of classic liturature ,suggest this book to your children and watch as they are drawn into the joined world of Hilary and Chana. Hilary is a neo- Nazi who was involved by her boyfriend ,Brad. While with Brad they are involved in a terrible crash. Brad walks away unhurt, but ironicly Hilary is taken to a Jewish hospital where she lies in limbo between life and death. While she sleeps she becomes Chana a Jewish girl suffering under Hitlers Reign. Her family shattered, and her world cast into confusion Chana struggles to survive the unthinkable suffering she or anyone has ever faced and still keep her faith in God. Can her faith carry Hilary further from death and help her love and understand those different from her? Han Nolan makes the struggle that Hilary and Chana face reality that reach into your heart and and provokes emotions for the characters and for the many, many victims that suffered in the Holocost.

Stories of the Holocaust appeal to me, and this book did just that. All though I am not Jewish, this book still caught my eye. Nolan's changeovers in the book were absolutely captivating. His words roll of your tongue as if they were tiny pieces of candy. He evoked the secrecy of prejudism today, by bringing together to very different young girls.
As a teenager, I can fully relate to the type of humility it is to learn your family's antiquity. It is so "un-cool", as some may put it, to retrospect on ones life. A young girl, Hilary Burke, loathes the very thought of Jews. It takes a fatal car-accident and a look back in history as a Jew, for her to realize the torture and animosity it took for these human-beings to retrieve respect in common-day society.

"If I should die before I wake" is a compelling and a deeply written book, describing the living space and privacy of two young adults. Nolans portrayal is filled with melancholy and grief. It truefully brings tears to ones eyes.

This is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is one of those book that once you start reading it, it is hard to put down. The author of this book does a great job of explaining all the things that went on during the hollacost. The book is hard to follow in the begging but you understand it better after the first few chapters. It really does give you a better understanding of what went on and how the neo-nazi's treated the Jews. If I Should Die Before I Wake is an awesome book for teenagers or adults to read.

My 11 yo daughter and I both read this book. It is a powerful treatise on our sometimes twisted perceptions of others and the shock of finding value where we thought there was none. Well written and hard to put down.