![]() I think about the plastic water bottle right here on my desk. We’re rarely confronted with them in such clarity in our daily lives now. You’re not asked to do a lot of empathetic work.Īnd then I think there are clearer lines in stories from WWII… You get a protagonist to a point where he or she has to make a moral choice. I have 13-year-old boys, and we don’t let them play too many video games, but when we let them go to their friends’ house, these WWII video games… the whole point is to control the Allies as they mow down all the Germans. ![]() Was that difficult for you?Ī: (My generation) was certainly encouraged not to empathize with the German side of the war. Q: It’s a neat trick as a storyteller to get an audience to sympathize with a Nazi, even when it’s a kid. I didn’t think that sounded very commercial. I was writing a book that took me forever and most of the main characters don’t meet until page 500 almost… Plus I’m asking the reader to empathize deeply with this German kid who’s swept up in the worst violence ever perpetrated by human beings. My goals aren’t really commercial success. Question: I’m not surprised you’re traveling with this book nearly three years after it was published, but I’m wondering if you are?Īnswer: Of course I’m surprised! If you had told me any of this stuff would have happened when I finished the book, I would have fainted. ![]()
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