LeAnne Montgomery
asked
Eoin Dempsey:
Hosting book club reading The Longest Echo. What a great book! Can you suggest questions to discuss?
Eoin Dempsey
Hi LeAnne,
Thanks for considering my novel for your book club. Yeah, I've loads of questions. Here they are!
Book Club Questions for THE LONGEST ECHO
1. What did you think of the title of the book? Did you find that it aroused your curiosity? What did you think of the title after having read the novel?
2. Why do you think Liliana wants to get away from Monte Sole?
3. What do you think of her relationship with her mother?
4. Why do you think the Nicoletti’s were so eager to help James?
5. What are your first impressions of James? Lupo? Werner Brack?
6. Should Lupo have halted operations after hearing the rumors of the massacres in Tuscany?
7. Is Lupo a good man/leader?
8. What would you have done if you were a citizen on Monte Sole? Joined or supported the partisans, or kept to yourself?
9. What do you think of the stories of the partisans taking from the local shopkeepers and leaving IOU’s?
10. Have you looked into the true story of the Monte Sole massacre after reading the book? Had you heard of it before reading the novel?
11. Why did the SS plan to kill so many non-combatants?
12. How were the individual SS soldiers able to do what they did? Was it dehumanization? Years of propaganda? Trying to do as their peers did? Or was it that they were inherently evil? Was it something else?
13. Do you think finding the boys, Luca and Luciano, saved Liliana?
14. Did you know about the escape routes the Nazis took through Europe, the rat-lines?
15. What do you think of the clergy that helped the war criminals? How widespread ddo you think the problem was?
16. What do you think of the questions Brack’s mother asks him when he visits her in Austria?
17. What would James have become without Sheriff Brody’s influence?
18. Why do you think James got divorced?
19. Did Liliana invite James to the party in Manhattan to talk about the article or was it something more?
20. Describe Liliana’s mental state when she meets James.
21. Why did the Allied governments give up on their promise to prosecute every Nazi war criminal? Why did Germany pardon so many in the 1950’s?
22. Did you know about the massive German influence in Argentina?
23. Why did the Argentinean government under Peron allow so many Nazis to enter the country?
24. Why does Liliana react the way she does when she wakes up beside James?
25. What were your first impressions of Richard Klement?
26. What did you think of his confession?
27. Would you have done what Liliana did?
28. Did this book give you a greater understanding of the politics/intricacies in chasing war criminals in the 1950’s?
29. Do you think this book would make a good movie? Who would you cast in the title roles?
30. What did you think of the ending? Is there any more to the story from there?
Thanks for considering my novel for your book club. Yeah, I've loads of questions. Here they are!
Book Club Questions for THE LONGEST ECHO
1. What did you think of the title of the book? Did you find that it aroused your curiosity? What did you think of the title after having read the novel?
2. Why do you think Liliana wants to get away from Monte Sole?
3. What do you think of her relationship with her mother?
4. Why do you think the Nicoletti’s were so eager to help James?
5. What are your first impressions of James? Lupo? Werner Brack?
6. Should Lupo have halted operations after hearing the rumors of the massacres in Tuscany?
7. Is Lupo a good man/leader?
8. What would you have done if you were a citizen on Monte Sole? Joined or supported the partisans, or kept to yourself?
9. What do you think of the stories of the partisans taking from the local shopkeepers and leaving IOU’s?
10. Have you looked into the true story of the Monte Sole massacre after reading the book? Had you heard of it before reading the novel?
11. Why did the SS plan to kill so many non-combatants?
12. How were the individual SS soldiers able to do what they did? Was it dehumanization? Years of propaganda? Trying to do as their peers did? Or was it that they were inherently evil? Was it something else?
13. Do you think finding the boys, Luca and Luciano, saved Liliana?
14. Did you know about the escape routes the Nazis took through Europe, the rat-lines?
15. What do you think of the clergy that helped the war criminals? How widespread ddo you think the problem was?
16. What do you think of the questions Brack’s mother asks him when he visits her in Austria?
17. What would James have become without Sheriff Brody’s influence?
18. Why do you think James got divorced?
19. Did Liliana invite James to the party in Manhattan to talk about the article or was it something more?
20. Describe Liliana’s mental state when she meets James.
21. Why did the Allied governments give up on their promise to prosecute every Nazi war criminal? Why did Germany pardon so many in the 1950’s?
22. Did you know about the massive German influence in Argentina?
23. Why did the Argentinean government under Peron allow so many Nazis to enter the country?
24. Why does Liliana react the way she does when she wakes up beside James?
25. What were your first impressions of Richard Klement?
26. What did you think of his confession?
27. Would you have done what Liliana did?
28. Did this book give you a greater understanding of the politics/intricacies in chasing war criminals in the 1950’s?
29. Do you think this book would make a good movie? Who would you cast in the title roles?
30. What did you think of the ending? Is there any more to the story from there?
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Rowena S. Lee
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Eoin Dempsey:
I have several ancestors from Dublin. My grandmother came over from Ireland when she was twenty. I'm 57% Irish. I am so glad to finally hear from an Irish author. Finding Rebecca was an excellent novel and so well written. I was enthralled with the descriptions of the labor camps. You did a remarkable job of writing about them. Did you do a lot of research before you began writing?
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