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Sometimes beautiful, sometimes harrowing, but always intriguing, this novel asks questions that can't be easily answered: Can sixty years of good deeds atone for a past in which a person committed the worst crimes imaginable? Can people truly change who they are, and if they do, does it matter anymore who they were? Can a person be excused from wrongdoing if they really believed it was right? Is there anything you wouldn't forgive the people you love the most?
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I've studied and read many books about the Holocaust, so I figured that this book would focus on the standard story of human suffering and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity. I find the Holocaust (or any kind of genocide) to be devastating, but I'm been looking for something new to learn about the history (which is also why I didn't give Elie Wiesel's, Night, a high rating, even though I would have if it were my first introduction to the horrors that the Jewish suffered du
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