Title: "Gold and omissions"
Author: Anne Cuneo (Suisse Romande)
Publisher: Bernard Campiche.
Genre: thriller
Very interesting thriller. Besides the traditional murder, Detective Mary Machiavelli is hired as a trainee lawyer in a law firm to discover the following records of Jewish property escheated.
Through this investigation, Anne Cuneo has merit and the courage to disclose, in the light of history, dishonest behavior of bankers and / or Swiss lawyer who became wealthy by appropriating the property of European Jews deported or missing. Many heirs were never able to recover their property (records destroyed, kept hidden, speculation, etc ...) Some had no idea they had an inheritance waiting. It
part of Swiss history reveals that Anne Cuneo and, at the same time, made uncomfortable much of his countrymen. Indeed it shows that the authorities at the time had facilitated the funding of Nazi Germany.
Story methodical, well documented, well-conducted action. Novel that piques our curiosity and challenges us to think. Lively style.
Comments
Anne Cuneo resumed, quite rightly, in a quote from the novel "Father Goriot" by Balzac, that illustrates the greed of men: " At the root of any property, there a crime is unknown "(p. 217).
But what history reveals to Swiss inglorious was found, alas, in other forms in other countries, and in France itself, there has not been that men and women , courageous, honest, and scrupulously and selfless patriots.
However, this book proves that literature can move attitudes and behaviors since after its publication, the association of Swiss bankers publicly apologized to the Jews for all the difficulties made.
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Anne Cuneo has been presented in previous posts (photo and biography)
Author: Anne Cuneo (Suisse Romande)
Publisher: Bernard Campiche.
Genre: thriller
Very interesting thriller. Besides the traditional murder, Detective Mary Machiavelli is hired as a trainee lawyer in a law firm to discover the following records of Jewish property escheated.
Through this investigation, Anne Cuneo has merit and the courage to disclose, in the light of history, dishonest behavior of bankers and / or Swiss lawyer who became wealthy by appropriating the property of European Jews deported or missing. Many heirs were never able to recover their property (records destroyed, kept hidden, speculation, etc ...) Some had no idea they had an inheritance waiting. It
part of Swiss history reveals that Anne Cuneo and, at the same time, made uncomfortable much of his countrymen. Indeed it shows that the authorities at the time had facilitated the funding of Nazi Germany.
Story methodical, well documented, well-conducted action. Novel that piques our curiosity and challenges us to think. Lively style.
Comments
Anne Cuneo resumed, quite rightly, in a quote from the novel "Father Goriot" by Balzac, that illustrates the greed of men: " At the root of any property, there a crime is unknown "(p. 217).
But what history reveals to Swiss inglorious was found, alas, in other forms in other countries, and in France itself, there has not been that men and women , courageous, honest, and scrupulously and selfless patriots.
However, this book proves that literature can move attitudes and behaviors since after its publication, the association of Swiss bankers publicly apologized to the Jews for all the difficulties made.
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Anne Cuneo has been presented in previous posts (photo and biography)
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