- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Bantam Book (1985)
- ASIN: B003VW3X9E
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Old School Courtroom Drama with moral ambiguities,
By "downtownsb" (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Qb VII (Paperback)
Preceding John Grisham and Scott Turow by some 25 years, Leon Uris' QB VII is one of the original courtroom drama books. Here, Dr. Kelno has been named in a book on the Holocaust as having committed heinous experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Dr. Kelno then brings a libel suit against the author of the book, Abraham Cady. The resulting trail is the last third or so of the book. Until that point, the author Uris treats the reader to a narrative on the life stories of both Cady and Kelno. Thus, the reader is intimate with and likes both characters. The trial is therefore difficult for the reader, for it's not clear if Kelno was or was not the doctor in question until the last pages of the book. Uris' story line asks questions about the culpability of the non-Jewish prisoners in the camps. Kelno was a political prisoner during time period for which he stands accused. It would be easy to dismiss the ambiguity of the questions, but the trail lawyers won't let the reader off the hook so easily. The ambiguity rests not on Kelno's guilt or inocence, but the cost of the trail to the Jewish victims of the concentration camps. While readers will be unsure of Kelno's guilt or innocence until the very end, the end of the novel does not resolve whether the trial was worth it for the winner, because it brought so much pain to those who had to testify at the trail. These quesitons are not easily answered, and I wonder if Uris himself could answer them. I doubt it. Uris is generous to both Cady and Kelno, and both earn our sympathy at points. However, one's view of Uris' generosity grows expediential when one leans the story is a fictionalized account of a real libel trials brought against Uris after he wrote his best best seller, Exodus. Readers who enjoyed Bernhard Schlink's The Reader will also enjoy this book. Fans of Grisham and Turow might enjoy contrasting the British courtroom to the American one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favorites!,
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This review is from: Qb VII (Paperback)
A knighted doctor, Adam Kelno. A Pulitzer Prize winning author, Benjamin Cady. Kelno, after leaving the infamous Jadwiga concentration camp where he was imprisoned for years, has spent the last 20 years working with natives in Borneo, for which he received knighthood, and practicing medicine among the poor in London. Cady has written a prize-winning novel, "The Holocaust" concerning the plight of the Jews in German concentation camps during World War II. He lists Dr. Kelno as one of the prisoner doctors that committed horrible medical experiments on Jewish prisoners. Kelno is suing for defamation. Cady is determined to fight.Gripping, horrifying and terribly sad, this novel of a legal battle in England brings back in force the horrors of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" while questioning everyone's humanity in the face of true evil. Read this book. I recommend it highly.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinating human approach to the horror of the Holocaust,
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This review is from: Qb VII (Paperback)
I think that this is Leon Uris's finest book, and the fact that it tackles such an unspeakable atrocity as the Holocaust makes it all the more powerful. The characters are fascinating - we have the Israli military hero author who is being sued and who is the less sympathetic of the two protagonists, and the doctor who has been slandered - who appears to be a man who has dedicated his life to helping people.But is it all as it seems? Interspersed with the well crafted and written story of the lives of these two men we also have the pomp and formality of the British Court System. This in itself makes the book one of the finest legal thrillers I have read. Ultimately such a story must have an ending. And what an ending! As they say, you read a book to get to the ending and you won't be disappointed. It is a fabulous novel and one I highly recommend.
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