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In Paradise

By Peter Matthiessen

In Paradise book

In Paradise

By Peter Matthiessen

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The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it. One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a former death camp. They offer prayer at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews in this camp to their deaths. Clements Olin has joined them, in order to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor. As the days pass, tensions both political and personal surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer's role and to bear witness, not only to his family's ambiguous history but to his own. Profoundly thought-provoking, In Paradise is a fitting coda to the luminous career of a writer who was "for all readers. He was for the world” (National Geographic).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2015-02-03
Publication Date:
2015-02-03
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1594633525
ISBN13:
9781594633522
Weight:
208 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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