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Old School Courtroom Drama with moral ambiguities, Jui 16 2004
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.
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