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Baum On Books

Book Review: The Zone Of Interest

WSHU | By Joan Baum

Published January 27, 2015 at 4:40 PM EST

Book critic Joan Baum has this review of a novel set in a concentration camp understood as Auschwitz, the Nazis' most notorious death camp.

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