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Comments (0)In an anonymous country at the end of World War II, Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, limps a few feet, and collapses just before he reaches the town that ignored the camp and those who suffered in its midst.
He is hidden and nursed back to health by Alice, the local innkeeper’s daughter. Paul and Alice fall in love and, when the war ends, they marry and have children. A skilled engineer, Paul helps rebuild the placid little town and eventually rises to become its mayor.
But as much as Paul tries to bury his past, forcefully putting his life prior to and during the war behind him, he is haunted by those times as well as by the fact that the people he now considers friends stood by and did nothing to abate the suffering of he and his fellow prisoners.
When the camp’s sadistic commandant returns to the village, Paul must decide whether to continue leading the peaceful life he has built or seek revenge for the terror he endured.
Should he forgive and forget or take a stand and fight?
Exploring the oft-considered themes of good and evil, forgiveness and revenge, and our ability as humans to choose between them, “The Game of Opposites” is an original and poignant novel with vivid, complicated characters.
Lebrecht is a fluid, beautiful writer who paints a portrait of a man, a town and a life that manages to be both simple and complex. He tackles a large moral dilemma and creates a page-turner from it.
“The Game of Opposites” is a small story that raises big questions about how far we will go to live a life of love without forgetting the past that brought us to the threshold of our present.