From Peter Mattheissen, two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, comes In Paradise, a powerful novel about American scholar and "Holocaust authority", Clements Olin, and his spiritual retreat at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Fully immersed in trying to make sense of the horrors that took place at the camp, while eating and sleeping in the Nazi officer's quarters, Olin begins researching his own past and has to deal with a long hidden secret his family has suppressed.
In Paradise received a starred review from Booklist: "Matthiessen expertly raises the challenges and the difficulties inherent in addressing this subject matter, proving, as the muralist Malan says, that the creation of art "is the only path that might lead toward the apprehension of that ultimate evil . . . that the only way to understand such evil is to reimagine it.""
"This powerful, necessary novel is hard to take, yet impossible to turn away from. It doesn’t shy away from questioning the depths of human depravity, nor is it ashamed to admit that there are no real answers." - Book Page Reviews
In Paradise received a starred review from Booklist: "Matthiessen expertly raises the challenges and the difficulties inherent in addressing this subject matter, proving, as the muralist Malan says, that the creation of art "is the only path that might lead toward the apprehension of that ultimate evil . . . that the only way to understand such evil is to reimagine it.""
"This powerful, necessary novel is hard to take, yet impossible to turn away from. It doesn’t shy away from questioning the depths of human depravity, nor is it ashamed to admit that there are no real answers." - Book Page Reviews
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