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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307389176
From the author of the award-winning “The Song of Names” comes a
powerful new work that explores the reverberations of both love and
hate in the story of one man’s unlikely survival.
From the author of “The Song of Names” (winner of the 2002
Whitbread First Novel Award), a powerful new novel that explores
the reverberations of love and hate in the story of one man’s
unlikely survival. In an unnamed country at the end of a world war,
Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after running
only a few hundred feet. He is taken in by a young woman named
Alice, and by the time she has nursed him back to health, the war
has ended. With no one to return to and learning to love the woman
who saved him, Paul decides to stay where he is. Over time he
marries Alice, has a family, helps to rebuild the village, and,
eventually, becomes its mayor. But Paul is inescapably haunted by
his life before the war, by his time in the camp, and by the fact
that the people who are now his friends ignored for years the labor
camp in their midst. When the camp’s commander returns to the
village, Paul is at last faced with the moral dilemma that will
force him to choose between vengeance and forgiveness. “The Game of
Opposites “tells a universal tale of good and evil with
extraordinary humanity and poignancy. It is a stunning evocation of
the capability for both within all of us. “From the Hardcover
edition.”
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