Kapo av Aleksander Tisma, Richard Williams

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<b>A devastating novel about the attrocities of WWII, and the unspeakable things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia''s great literary voices.</b><br><br><i>The Book of Blam</i>, <i>The Use of Man</i>, <i>Kapo</i>: In these three unsparing novels the Yugoslav author Aleksandar Tišma anatomized the plight of those who survived the Second World War and the death camps, only to live on in a death-haunted world. Blam simply lucked out—and can hardly face himself in the mirror. By contrast, the teenage friends in <i>The Use of Man</i> are condemned to live on and on while enduring every affliction. <i>Kapo</i> is about Lamian, who made it through Auschwitz by serving his German masters, knowing that at any moment and for any reason his “special status” might be revoked.<br><br>But the war is over now. Auschwitz is in the past. Lamian has settled down in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, where he has a respectable job as a superintendent in the railyard. Everyt