A novel based on the story of Eichmann's discovery, capture and execution. The scene shifts from Argentina to Israel, from London to Rome, as Franz and Becky try to come to terms with their fathers' world. By the author of "A Question of Loyalties", winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In 1964, famous economist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Eli Czinner lives in Argentina with his English wife, Nell, and their daughter Becky. In the years following the war, he lost his sight, an appropriate fate for a man who was metaphorically blind during the fascist period, when "he had combined his contempt for the Nazis with his happy confidence that he could influence them, even lead them by the nose, save himself and his people by making himself useful." But his contribution to Germany's economic reconstruction prompted whispers of collaboration that have haunted him ever since. Introduced to Becky's fiance, Franz, and his father, Rudi, Eli recognizes the older man's voice as that of a former SS officer and mass murderer. Rudi's eventual trial in Israel lays on Franz and Becky the weight of their fathers' past sins--a burden that will never leave them, the novel's final section reveals. Londoner Massie ( A Question of Loyalties ) adroitly varies first- and third-person narrative voices in a story that to plumb the foundations of truth and tragedy, history and memory, in a tale of one generation's painful legacy to the next.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In Buenos Aires in 1964, Franz and Becky decide to marry. But when their parents meet, suddenly the unexpected becomes reality and reality becomes a nightmare: Franz's father was a Nazi and Becky's a concentration camp survivor. Eli chooses to denounce and expose Rudi, even at the expense of his daughter's happiness; now the young people must cope with what their fathers did. British novelist Massie ( The Death of Men , LJ 3/15/82) raises once again the chilling specter of an apparently loving, kind, and normal family man who has found it in himself to treat others inhumanly. Through his superb storytelling, the author asks the reader to reflect upon questions of loyalty, morality, and the relationship of victimizer to victim, exploring the ways in which the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children. Recommended.
- Marcia Dorey, Northwest Missouri State Univ. Lib., Maryville
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Marcia Dorey, Northwest Missouri State Univ. Lib., Maryville
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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