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Brodeck a novel
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- ISBN: 9780385530095 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0385530099 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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remote - Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2009.
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
When a stranger with unusual manners is murdered for his unflattering and insightful illustrations, a government report writer and concentration camp survivor writes an official, whitewashed account of the incident while secretly penning the truth in a parallel narrative. - Random House, Inc.
A powerful and moving novel about the ravages war and the need to tell the truth, even in the face of adversity.
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After the close of a great war, a mysterious stranger arrives in a small European village. He is an artist and he begins sketching the villagers, showing the painful reality of the crimes and betrayals the war left in its wake. Consumed by distrust, the villagers conspire and murder him. The authorities commission Brodeck, a timid, low-level bureaucrat, to write a report that essentially whitewashes the incident. Brodeck agrees to write the official account, but he simultaneously sets down his version of the incident in a parallel narrative, which interweaves his own horrific experiences as a prisoner of war, the truth about the strangerâs disappearance, and the dark secrets the villagers have fought fiercely to keep hidden.
