From one of Europe?s most revered authors, a tale of one man?s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity?s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them ?It?s an attractive trait in Magris that he so obviously can?t resist a good story. . . . Blameless, wonderfully translated by Anne Milano Appel, succeeds as a prayer for mercy and reason in a world of torturers and whitewashers.??Neal Ascherson, New York Review of Books Claudio Magris?s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a Museum of War involves both a horrible secret and the hope of redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museum?s curator, a descendant of victims of Jewish exile and of black slavery, has a complex dilemma: will the collections she exhibits...
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