The Things We Cannot Say is told in two different perspectives and is set in two separate timelines which end up converging in the most heartbreaking way. It was so much more than I expected it to be. I’m not sure why I wasn’t expecting The Things We Cannot Say to be as touching and as beautiful as I found it. It’s even funnier how I usually end up loving the books I expected less from than the ones everyone is talking about. It’s funny how I always end up expecting less from some books and a lot from others. As a painful family history comes to light, will the struggles of the past and present finally reach a heartbreaking resolution? In Poland separated from her family, Alice begins to uncover the story her grandmother is so desperate to tell, and discovers a love that bloomed in the winter of 1942. Her grandmother begs Alice to return to Poland to see what became of those she held dearest. When Alice’s cherished grandmother is hospitalised, a hidden box of mementoes reveals a tattered photo of a young man, a tiny leather shoe and a letter. But when their village falls to the Nazis, Alina doesn’t know if Tomasz is alive or dead. The night before he leaves for college, Tomasz proposes marriage. Alina and Tomasz are childhood sweethearts.
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