KOH Library Book Club Meeting - June 11, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Sara Kahn Shapiro will lead a discussion on the book, "A Grain of Truth" by Zygmunt Miloszewski.
It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in
Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the
capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and
museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds
himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien
and unfriendly.
The victim is found brutally murdered, her body
drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish
ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town,
where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft,
but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the
prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered
in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with
the painful tangle of Polish–Jewish relations and something that
happened more than sixty years earlier.
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