Description
In Paradise plunges readers into a week-long meditation retreat held at a former Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland, forcing a diverse group of attendees to confront their pasts and present anxieties. As simmering tensions and buried emotions surface among the participants, the narrative centers on an academic grappling with his own complex heritage and a search for lost family history. Matthiessen masterfully explores profound themes of memory, guilt, and the enduring impact of historical trauma, drawing parallels to journeys into the darkest aspects of the human condition. This powerful novel offers a deeply reflective exploration of how we process unspeakable events and the search for meaning in the face of profound loss.
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paperback
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Published Jan 1, 2014
246 pages
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Details
First Published
2014
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen.