In paradise
By: Peter Matthiesson
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781780745558; 9781780745565
Subjects: Teachers; Fiction; Jewish women; Family secrets
Description: 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.