During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French
teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his
own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a different name
and died in 1942.
Returning to France, he finds that the memory of the photograph
refuses to leave him. He decides to embark on a search for its
subject, which takes him to the Buchenwald archives, to the heart of
the Nazi machine, but more disturbingly, draws him into the dark heart
of his own family. Eventually, he is brought face-to-face with his own
capacity for violence.
A subtle, moving book, _The Origins of Violence_ shows the limitless
ways in which humans inflict harm on each other, and how individual
people, not societies, are the perpetrators.
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ISBN
9781847656476
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Serpent's tail
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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