Come to This Court and Cry av Linda Kinstler

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<b>¿</b><b>A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling</b><b>¿ </b><b><i>Guardian</i></b><b>¿Part detective story, part family history, part probing inquiry into how best to reckon with the horrors of a previous century, <i>Come to This Court and Cry</i> is bracingly original, beautifully written and haunting. </b><b>An astonishing book</b><b>¿</b><b> Patrick Radden Keefe, author of <i>Empire of Pain</i></b><i>To probe the past is to submit the memory of one''s ancestors to a certain kind of trial. In this case, the trial came to me</i>.A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead ¿ a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather ¿ was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living surv