Nachzehrer

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 30 30 1)>Nachzehrer </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 30 30 1)>is the life story of Gerald Kurt Paine a self-confessed 'eater of souls' as told to his friend the teacher. It is the story of a young Canadian man who loved to fly bi-planes and who at the outbreak of WWII convinces the Royal Air Force to let him fly a Hurricane to shoot down Nazis.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 30 30 1)>It is also the story of his capture and bizarre subjugation to a cruel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 30 30 1)>Kommandant </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 30 30 1)>at the Plotzensee Prison.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 30 30 1)>Nelson Keane's small novel is haunting and strange and dark yet it doesn't lack moments of levity and throughout exhibits a thorough understanding of the best and worst of human nature.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(8 8 9 1)>By turns terrifying and beautiful sometimes both at once Nachzehrer is a deep study of war and evil's toll of perhaps tall tales of ghouls literal and figurative and of empathy nudging us and then shoving us to consider what it means to be human in even the most dire circumstances. -- Michelle Butler Hallett author</span></p>