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Title: Qb VII by Leon Uris ISBN: 0-553-27094-X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Old School Courtroom Drama with moral ambiguities
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Qb VII
Comment: I have read many books, news stories on the holocaust. Try as I might, I cannot get my "hands around it" and also cannot bear to watch any more movies on the topic. I feel like a moth around a flame as I cannot resist the topic but I get burned every time that I engage it.
The time period in the book and when it was written fascinates me since the people written in it were alive to experience this horrible event. Not only were they alive but mostly they were in the prime of their lives. This is in comparison to today where that generation is passing on quickly. What bothers me most is that Nazi criminals (probably numbering in the millions) were allowed/desired (along with the entire country) to forget about their past from 1945 for about 50 years. Why not bury the past? Isn't it easier to hide and forget about it?
The reason that I give this book 3 stars rather than 4 or 5 is because the author could have used real names and people. Why make up individuals, situations or places when the real deal existed? Was Uris afraid to offend a Nazi war criminal? Country?
Another reason is that the whole basis for the trial doesn't make sense to me. It's a real stretch to believe it would take place.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best historical fictions I have ever read..
Comment: "QB VII" is nothing short of brilliant. Uris pays close attention to detail, engages the reader and the result is a pleasure to read that is impossible to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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Title: Mila 18 by Leon Uris ISBN: 0553241605 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Exodus by Leon Uris ISBN: 0553258478 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Trinity by Leon Uris ISBN: 055325846X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Haj by Leon Uris ISBN: 0553248642 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Redemption by Leon Uris ISBN: 006109174X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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