In Paradise

Resumen del libro

One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a former death camp. They offer prayer at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews in this camp to their deaths. Clements Olin has joined them, in order to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor. As the days pass, tensions both political and personal surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer's role and to bear witness, not only to his family's ambiguous history but to his own.

Biografía del autor

Peter Matthiessen (Nueva York, 1927-2014), escritor, viajero y naturalista, se ha interesado profundamente por el pensamiento oriental y el budismo zen, como reflejan muchos de sus trabajos. En 1978 ganó el National Book Award por x{0026}lt;em El leopardo de las nievesx{0026}lt;/em . Es también autor de la novelax{0026}lt;em Jugando en los campos del Señor x{0026}lt;/em y del volumen de relatos x{0026}lt;em En la laguna Estigix{0026}lt;/em a.