There is no shortage of Holocaust novels in the world, from so many different angles that you’d be forgiven for thinking there might be room for no more. So if you are going to write Holocaust fiction in the 21st century, make it good and make it count.
Where does Fergus O’Connell’s The Paradise Ghetto fit in? The answer is not so simple.
Two young Dutch Jewish women, Julia and Suzanne, are transported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp for “privileged Jews.” Julia is damaged and cynical; Suzanne hails from a more loving, sheltered background. The two share a love of books, and they cling to that and to each other in a world drained of humanity.
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