RaveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIt is, at once, a love story and an immersion into an awful piece of history … Dorrigo survives the death camp only to suffer, not only survivor’s guilt, but also the nagging embarrassment of his resulting celebrity. Returning to civilian life, he marries his pre-ordained fiance; however, because of his constant skirt chasing, he finds only emptiness and unavoidable disappointment … It is not so much a story, although the story is enthralling, as a novel of character, because, ultimately, it does what the best fiction does best, crafts the biggest questions of life — love, purpose, responsibility, loss — into meaningful prose that takes us down a road and changes us.
