The rumors spread by the Camp’s inmates, other Nazi
officers, and the Kommandant’s own family insist that she was his
“mistress”, but was she, voluntarily? Told from three different
perspectives – that of the formerly idealistic Kommandant, the young Jewish
inmate who captivates him, and the ostensibly objective historical biographies
of the protagonists – this novel examines one troubling moral question over and
over: if your staying alive was the only “good” during the War,… |
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