REMOTE SYMPATHY (PB)

Frau Greta Hahn’s new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind in Munich. Life in Buchenwald appears to be idyllic and lying just beyond the forest that surrounds them is the work camp where her husband, SS Sturmbannführer Dietrich Hahn, has been assigned as the camp’s administrator. A tour de force about the evils of obliviousness, Remote Sympathy compels us to question our continuing and wilful ability to look the other way in a world that is in thrall to the idea that everything – even facts and morals – is relative.