CURIOUS ANIMAL BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2014 PICK In Paradise tells
the story of a group of men and women who come together for a
weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II
concentration camp, and the grief, rage and upsetting revelations
that surface during their time together. Even as it probes the
suffering, conflicts, and longings of these diverse characters, In
Paradise raises provocative and unanswerable metaphysical
questions: what responsibility comes with bearing witness to such
cruelty and tragedy; and what insights into the nature of good and
evil may be lost in the next decade or two, as the last survivors
of - and witnesses to - the death camps pass away. Having
participated in three Zen retreats at Auschwitz beginning in the
1990s, Matthiessen had long wished to comment on the ongoing
fallout of last century's global catastrophe, but 'as a non-Jewish
American journalist, I felt unqualified to do so, I felt I had no
right. But approaching it as fiction - as a novelist, an artist - I
eventually decided that I did. Only fiction would allow me to probe
from a variety of viewpoints the great strangeness of what I had
felt.'
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