Some Day The Stars Will Fall by Mark Hoffman

Some Day the Stars Will Fall: Is evil born or is it made? by Mark Hoffmann
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

A narration of the emotions of an imaginary living great grandson of Adolf Hitler, under the name of Adam Holloway. A very plain and simple
book which portrays the emotions of a young confused boy, who cannot disclose his real identity to the world in fear of being he and his family being hated for being the great grandson of Adolf Hitler, for the rest of his life

Storyline:

Adolf Hitler, during his final days before his death, is said to have a mistress called Eva Braun, through whom he has a son, smuggled out of Germany to Australia secretly through the hospital nurse. While doing so he hands over a small bracelet as a sovereign to be passed on to his future generations, commemorating the legacy of the most hated man in the world’s history, directly responsible for more than 6 million deaths. The family name was changed to Holloway from Hitler to conceal the identity of the living descendants. The present story is of Adam Holloway, the third generation direct descendant of Adolf Hitler, who move on to his grandmother’s home in Sydney, after the death of his father Robert Holloway. Adam was never comfortable in his new home due to the racial discrimination being a major problem in his locality due to some Middle Eastern immigrant settlers. He loses his grandmother Margaret, in one of such attacks on his house by the immigrants, when his blood boils to show his real Hitlerian traits in taking revenge. But he refrains himself from any violent acts, just to hide his real identity, which might torture him even more later. His only friend is his Muslim neighbor, Aymen, from Afghanistan, who later becomes a family friend and loses his life to protect Adam, in a major inter-racial tussle between Australian youth and Middle Eastern youth. Adam, at this juncture is put to lot of mental pressure when he starts wondering how his blood, laden with aggressiveness, violent temper, rebellious nature and cruelty, will be able to cope up with the present day situations, without anyone knowing about his noble genealogy, linked to Adolf Hitler. The best part is that this secret is kept and passed on to the male progeny, without the spouses ever come to know about it. The book ends with Adam left wondering whether evil is really born or made. He also keeps wondering as to who he is, either Adam Holloway or the son of the son of the son of the legendary Adolf Hilter !

Pros: Surprised to read that even such a cruel man like Adolf Hitler, wanted to have his own family and progeny to carry on his legacy. The inter racial disturbances of Australia have been well brought out through this book. The author very carefully valued the ideas and emotions of both the locals and settlers without hurting the sentiments of any religion. He could well relate this problem to Hitler’s reason to drive away Jews from Germany, for the same reasons Australians now want Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants out of Australia. He placed Hitler’s progeny in that place to understand as to how Hitler could have acted in the same situation decades ago, in his country. Makes the reader feel that If Hitler was wrong then, then even Australia is wrong now. Superb !

Cons: The author sometimes hinted that the Australian government supports their countrymen and not very liberal in its policies when it comes to mitigating the racial disturbances of the country. The story seemed to have ended suddenly without much of a reasonable climax and how Adam could have tackled his problem.

My rating is 3 out of 5

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