This audiobook is striking in its sincerity—everything written here is true. During World War II, British officer Eric Lomax is captured. After terrible torture and humiliation in a Japanese concentration camp, he can no longer return to his former life. The thought of revenge never leaves him. He is sure that his tormentors deserve the harshest punishment, and he feels special hatred toward the translator who was present at all the tortures. His wooden, emotionless voice rings in Lomax’s ears.
And then they meet—two deeply old men. One spends his whole life dreaming of revenge; the other seeks to atone for his sins.
And Lomax understands that, to his own surprise, he has no clear answer to the question of whether hatred can last forever.