From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's
obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and
humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio
Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession
with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale
centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a
Museum of War involves both a horrible secret and the hope of
redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museum's curator, a descendant of
victims of Jewish exile and of black slavery, has a complex
dilemma: will the collections she exhibits save humanity from
repeating its tragic and violent past? Or might the display of
articles of war actually valorize and memorialize evil atrocities?
In Blameless Magris affirms his mastery of the novel form,
interweaving multiple themes and traveling deftly through history.
With a multitude of stories, the author investigates individual
sorrow, the societal burden of justice aborted, and the ways in
which memory and historical evidence are sabotaged or sometimes
salvaged.
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