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|title=Jew
|author=DO Dodd
|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
|pages=160
|publisher=1842433512No Exit Press
|date=June 2010
|isbn=1842433512
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Some people are going to say this book is little more than Nazi porn. Some will say it's a dark and searing look into the depths of our collective soul. And I'll be honest with you: I don't have the faintest idea of who's right. I don't know what we are intended to take from it at all. But what I do know is that opening scene is an absolute triumph - horrific but vivid and with such draw, such power, that you're too intimately involved to even think of backing off. It's a disturbing book, no less disturbing for that it's so beautifully written. And look at the world around us: there's no use pretending that nationalism, extremism and religious fundamentalism are things of the past.
Drawing on Kafka and Conrad, this is a brave and original book for the stout of heart. And it'll stay with me for a long time.
My thanks to the good people at No Exit for sending the book.
With something this singular, it's difficult to suggest something similar! Readers might like to look at Todd T Friendly in [[Time's Arrow by Martin Amis]].
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