The Fiftieth Gate: Simon Baker

The Fiftieth Gate is in essence a history, or to use a film term, a documentary. It focuses on the experience of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe occurring during WWII - (1939 -1945).
What is of particular interest is the way in which the book is composed; rather than being a single grand official narrative of the period, Baker uses a composite of narratives, both fictitious and real in conjunction with historical documents.

As such the book is  a history with many narrative dimensions: spiritual, cultural, linguistic, factual and institutional. The transition from one narrative to another is often seamless, Baker making the point that our experiences of history and events, telling and retelling is complex.