The Game of Opposites

In an unnamed country at the end of a world war, Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after a few hundred feet. Taken in by a young woman he learns to love, Paul decides to stay where he is, and, as the war ends, he marries, starts a family, and helps to rebuild the village. 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 horrors in their midst. So when the camprs"s commander suddenly returns to the village, Paul finds himself forced to choose between vengeance and forgiveness.The Game of Oppositesis a universal tale of good and evil, and a stunning evocation of the capability for both within us all.

NORMAN LEBRECHT is the author of eleven books about music, including the international bestsellers The Maestro Myth and Who Killed Classical Music? He is a music columnist for the London Evening Standard, a cultural commentator on Bloomberg.com, and presenter of The Lebrecht interview series on BBC Radio 3 in Great Britain. He lives in London.


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