Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Brilliant Novel:

Having read Ishmael and other Quinn novels years ago, and recently having read The Holy, I was expecting something a bit more along those lines... A bit of entertaining fiction with some interesting ideas behind it.

But After Dachau was a brilliant book. I was a hundred pages in, lulled into the idea of a book "about" reincarnation, when it gut-punched me with an historical twist that ends up tying into a number of themes from Ishmael, My Ishmael, The Story of B, and others.

It presents Quinn's ideas... more info

Makes you wonder...:

This new novel by Daniel Quinn is certainly unlike any of his previous books in that it isn't a work of cultural critique, but is still thematically connected to his past works, such as Ishmael and The Story of B. This is the story of a young man who is obsessed with reincarnation, who finally finds what he believes to be the real thing, and how this discovery shatters his view of the world and sends him on a daunting mission to share what he's found with others. If you've read Daniel's other books, when... more info

A very creative and excellent novel.:

Quinn really thought outside the box on this one. If you like dumbfounding moments of realization, for example, like you experienced if you watched the movie The Sixth Sense, you'll love this book.

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