The boy who drew shadows
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Hugo Fischer, a renowned criminologist, arrives to investigate. On Christmas Day, 1943. To Auschwitz. Hugo had spent the previous ten years in Berlin, where the events in the concentration camps were largely ignored: terrible rumors were spread around the city, of course, but reasonable people wouldn't believe rumors, would they? And now Hugo is faced with a horror for which he, a man who is not evil and by no means a fighter, is not at all prepared. Meanwhile, the Berlin authorities are interested in a single death, which happened where death is a terrible everyday occurrence: a doctor who experimented on prisoners was found dead. And he was found by an eight-year-old boy - a test subject of Dr. Josef Mengele, a young talented artist who had the skill and presence of mind to immediately sketch what he saw. A Jewish child from Bologna, a criminologist from the Berlin criminal police who has something to hide - a strange duo investigating a strange death in a terrible land - and a whole host of possible suspects, also each hiding a secret of their own. Oriana Ramunno has written a detective thriller based on her Holocaust research - an improbable but brilliantly successful move. "The Boy Who Painted Shadows" is "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" if Jean-Christophe Granger had written it: suspenseful detective intrigue, believable historical background, the banality of evil, and the possibility of resisting it in places from which hope long ago departed. Ramunno drew material, among other things, from the biography of her great-uncle, who visited a death camp and remembered that even in this hell, even among the guards there were people who had the courage to remain human and resist.
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