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|title=The Origin of Violence

|sort=Origin of Violence

|borrow=Maybe

|isbn=9781846687501

|pages=256

|publisher=Serpent's Tail

|date=December 2011

|summary=French prize winning literary fiction exploring the impact that Nazi occupation and concentration camps has had on one family's life to the modern day. This is a book whose full impact is only revealed in the final pages - not a book to give up on!

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At one point the narrator's girlfriend, who is against his writing about David Wagner's life, asks him if the world really needs another book about the concentration camps. I must say that for much of the book I empathized with this view, although I have to say that by the end I had modified my view more towards the view that if it does, then this is certainly a good example. In fact, if you dig deeper it's less about the Nazi regime and more about human weaknesses. I just wasn't convinced with the ease at which the past was discovered.

Human impact World War Two stories have attracted literary prize nominations on this side of the English Channel too this year in the form of Booker long-listed [[Far to Go by Alison Pick]].

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