NP Unity by Michael Arditti

[Tim Strzechowski]

I wonder to what extent current events in the Mideast -- with evidence of 
torture et al having come via a post-U.S. invasion of Iraq, coupled with 
news out of Guatanimo, etc. -- are likewise contributing to this lessening 
of the "power of taboo" and making Holocaust-related events more suitable 
(dare I suggest "engaging") for subject matter.





>
> "Books concerned with Nazism and the Holocaust have been in vogue in 
> English language publishing recently. Locally, Auschwitz survivor Jacob 
> G. Rosenberg's excellent East of Time recently won the NSW Premier's 
> Literary Award for non-fiction. Yet writers with no direct connection  to 
> these horrors are beginning to choose them for subject matter and it  may 
> be that as the atrocities of World War II ebb from living memory,  they 
> are losing their power of taboo. Michael Arditti's Unity is one  such 
> book. [...]"
>