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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I still can't get past the niggling feeling that this has something to do with the way World War II (or at least the Nazi experimentation) resorted itself in his alternate history. Is this a world where the Holocaust was not made known, and therefore more palatable to the people of England that there be little farms for organ donors?
I am not looking for an answer, but I am pleased that the book made me consider the question of what leads a society to the acceptance of this situation.
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I agree that World War II looms large in this as it did overtly in
The Remains of the Day. I wonder to what extent his background of growing up Japanese in England in the postwar might have contributed to that? The Japanese also engaged in atrocities in the human experimentation and unlike the Germans, were largely unwilling to admit and atone.