From the author of "The Song of Names" (winner of the 2002Whitbread First Novel Award), a powerful new novel that exploresthe reverberations of love and hate in the story of one man"sunlikely survival. In an unnamed country at the end of a world war,Paul Miller escapes from a labor camp, collapsing after runningonly a few hundred feet. He is taken in by a young woman namedAlice, and by the time she has nursed him back to health, the warhas ended. With no one to return to and learning to love the womanwho saved him, Paul decides to stay where he is. Over time hemarries Alice, has a family, helps to rebuild the village, and,eventually, becomes its mayor. But Paul is inescapably haunted byhis life before the war, by his time in the camp, and by the factthat the people who are now his friends ignored for years the laborcamp in their midst. When the camp"s commander returns to thevillage, Paul is at last faced with the moral dilemma that willforce him to choose between vengeance and forgiveness. "The Game ofOpposites "tells a universal tale of good and evil withextraordinary humanity and poignancy. It is a stunning evocation ofthe capability for both within all of us. "From the Hardcoveredition."
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