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A memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age, complete with encounters with Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, and Greta Garbo along the way.

Salka Viertel’s autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman’s pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the
Name: L. Abraham
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: No Table of Contents; no index
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2020
Review: It seems to me that a memoir that includes historical events and famous people should at least have an index. The publisher should have taken the time to create one. I just received the book today, so I can't talk about the memoir itself, except that it will be very hard to find any specific person or event, it does not even have a Table of Contents.

Name: J.Z.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A picture of early Hollywood
Date: Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020
Review: A good picture of the film industry and the people in it, both actors and behind the camera.

Name: Sydney
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Salon of Hollywood
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2019
Review: Reading Salk Viertel’s memoir is almost like living with her. She is so natural and unadorned and lived among such fascinating people in a fascinating time in America, through so many crises from World War 1 through the McCarthy Era. I learned so much about aging and attitude from this beautifully written book by a real writer.

Name: Harvey West
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Superb
Date: Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2019
Review: A candid personal memoir

Name: robert j. baker
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Hollywood stories
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019
Review: Great Hollywood film snippets especially good on Garbo but padded with incomplete family stories

Name: Vivek Tejuja
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A keen sense of nostalgia
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2019
Review: If you feel like reading the quintessential twentieth-century autobiography, then this is it. You just have to read The Kindness of Strangers by Salka Viertel. It is everything I expect from an autobiography and it delivers down to the last page. Viertel's life was not only interesting but also lived variedly and maybe that's the reason the book shines the way it does. It is almost a pilgrimage of one woman through the twentieth century's darkest times and also a chronicle of the good times. I could easily classify The Kindness of Strangers as an epic read, mainly because of its sheer expanse.

The Kindness of Strangers is the journey of a woman. It is the journey of a century - all rolled into one - from a province in the Austro-Hungarian empire to Hollywood. Viertel's book is unique in the sense that it doesn't try and pack everything in one chapter or paragraph. It takes its time talking about people, events, and their impact. Normally, I have observed myself getting bored of such autobiographies that start right from childhood and unfold against a backdrop of larger events. That wasn't the case with The Kindness of Strangers. I enjoyed the read and that of course had a lot to do with the writing. 

Of course this isn't an easy read, in the sense of the turn of events - from the First World War to the Second and incidents that are recalled from memory, Salka Viertel's writing is too detailed. Sometimes that works wonders for the reader and sometimes it is too much trivia. However, it made me think about how should an autobiography be written at all then? Is there a template? Should there be one? I don't think so though. The Kindness of Strangers as any good autobiography merges the personal and political perfectly. For instance, her concern over her children's safety during WWII or her time as an actress in Europe to her time in Hollywood and how that merged with political opinions of many is a delight to read. 

There is a lot going on in the book and I was only too glad to see timelines so as not to miss the drift of what is being said. I had no clue of who Viertel was till I started reading her memoir. The relationship with her parents, the rebellion, the relationship she shared with her sister Rose, and most importantly leading the life she wanted to. The sense of loss of innocence is spread throughout the book. Nostalgia plays such an important role - not only in its conjuring but also it feels like it is not a thing of the past at all. 

My favourite part of the memoir is Salka's later life, spent in America, where she worked in Hollywood, made friends with Greta Garbo, became an American citizen as well, and helped many artists find homes - the ones who escaped Hitler's clutches so to say. There are these lost worlds constantly at play of which the reader is privy to. The writing while gives a sense of staying on some details a little longer, still feels hurried. I wish for some parts there was more. 

The Kindness of Strangers is full of life and joy. It is also full of instances that demand attention and empathy. It is the kind of book that talks about relationships - the constancy of them and the passing on of most. Ultimately, it is the book that makes us see our follies as humans and also the kindness we are ultimately capable of which sometimes we do not know of ourselves.