SHORTLISTED: THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE
FOR FICTION 2022 A NOVEL OF DEVASTATING BEAUTY SET IN BUCHENWALD
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR "A powerful and disturbing study in
terrible lies and the human need to believe them." ANNIE PROULX
Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn't nearly as
wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared.
Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind and
life in Buchenwald would appear to be idyllic. Lying just beyond
the forest that surrounds them is the looming presence of a work
camp. Frau Hahn's husband, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dietrich Hahn, has
been assigned as the camp's administrator. When Frau Hahn's poor
health leads her into an unlikely and poignant friendship with one
of Buchenwald's prisoners, Dr Lenard Weber, her naive ignorance
about what is going on so nearby is challenged. A decade earlier,
Dr Weber had invented a machine believed that its subtle resonances
might cure cancer. But does it really work? One way or another, it
might save a life. A tour de force about the evils of
obliviousness, Remote Sympathy compels us to question our
continuing and wilful ability to look the other way in a world that
is in thrall to the idea that everything-even facts and morals-is
relative.
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Sat, 2 Jul 2022 | Review
by: elaine S.
well written account pf the concentration camp Buchenwald in Weimar during WW2. based on fact written from 3 different views.. geographically correct and descriptions very close to the conditions around this camp.
very easy to read and difficult to put don
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