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An Eye For An Eye

by Alvin Abram

Category: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction 

ISBN: 0-9733480-3-8

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Price:  $32.75 Cdn; $20.00 US; trade paperback

Book Description: Winner of the 2005 BookAdz Award!

Cover designed by: Charlotte Launo (Denmark)

Meet...

AARON ACKERMAN:   Joseph ’s confused son. He is witness to his father’s political activities and his aunt’s relationship with a gentile. Taught to believe in his faith by his Orthodox grand-father, he is torn between God’s apparent inactive role and the loss of his family during the war. At first an observer, he becomes a reluctant participant and finally an avenger. The past becomes the present and there can be no future until he resolves the present.

RACHEL ACKERMAN: Aaron ’s aunt and Joseph ’s sister, and a stabilizing influence between the different ideologies exposed to Aaron in their home. She brings to the story a tragic love affair when love wanders outside one’s faith.

JOSEF ACKERMAN:   Aaron ’s father. A Communist agitator. His family suffers because of his political activism. He is filled with guilt, revenge, hatred and remorse.  

DAVID ACKERMAN: Joseph and Rachel ’s father, Aaron ’s Orthodox grandfather. He is unable to accept or understand his family’s behaviour. They in turn try to shield him, not wanting him to be hurt, which requires subterfuge, difficulties to themselves, risk of exposure and suffering.

YAKOV SALTZBERG: Joseph ’s best friend and a Communist agitator. When the Nazis’ over run Poland , he hides in Warsaw , fights for the ghetto and ultimately reveals himself as a hero.

JANUSZ ZWONARZ: Rachel ’s gentile lover. He allows the reader to see the non-Jewish side in the conflict against Germany and brings to the story the war as fought by the Poles.

HERBERT FRITZ: A Polish collaborator paid by the Gestapo, who looks for Communists and Jews. Despicable in every way. 

SS DIETMAR DONDORF: A Gestapo officer with no particular feelings for Jews, except as a means to prove himself. A physical defect – a falsetto voice – motivates him further. Assigned to eliminate Communists in Lodz, he pursues his assignment with calm, efficient detachment until failure becomes a possibility. Then he becomes cruel.

CAPTAIN KONRAD CHRISTMANN: A German officer who truly hates Jews. He is sub-ordinate to Dondorf whom he holds in contempt, but does not dare reveal his feelings. 

UNTERSTURMFUHRER HANS KOGLER:  A prison officer. The ultimate evil. No pretense, no deception and no excuses. He lashes out at those unable to fight back – the inmates in Birkenau.

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Reviews:

"I had the chance to read your manuscript entitled An Eye For An Eye and found it to be both interesting and fascinating to the extent that I had difficulty putting it down. In short, it was spellbinding." ~ Leslie L. Dan, C.M., B.Sc. Phm., M.B.A., LL.D. (B.C.), D.Sc. (N.S.), O.Ont., Novopharm founder and member of its Board of Director

"In my opinion, every person should read this book no matter what their faith. It is far easier to forget these terrible times. Although the book acts as a tragic reminder to us all of the sheer madness of this period in human history, it is also a story that, by your careful use of characters and the situations that they find themselves in, makes it one that is very easy to read. You have done an absolutely amazing job with the book." ~ John Stoneman, B.Sc., M.Sc., Morstone Natural History Films

"A harrowing and heartrending end to a magnificent tragic tale. My warmest congratulations. What a powerful evocation of the horrors! I admire the way earlier characters are brought back in. It helps to give your book an epic scope. I feel sure your book will be published. If you wish to quote any of my letters to prospective publishers please do: I am happy to support such a monumental work in any way I can." ~ D. M. Thomas, author of The White Hotel (Cheltenham Prize and the Pen Silver Award)