An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary's Jewish
community and the nation's deep complicity in the Holocaust "Gabor
Schein is that rarest of elegists, endowed equally with a respect
for history and an ecstasy of imagination."-Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus Born in 1723 in a small
German town, Johann Klarfeld is thirteen when his father dies. He
is taken in by a kind Italian painter to live with him and his
daughter in The Hague. But the daughter, beautiful and blind, has a
secret. Two centuries later, Berta Josza is born during World War
II in a village in northern Hungary. The daughter of a police
officer, Berta watches chaos unfold through her father's eyes, from
the plundering of the possessions of murdered Jews to the carnage
of the 1956 Revolution. When she happens upon an enigmatic
autobiography in a secondhand bookshop, she can't shake the sense
that she somehow knows the author. Lyrical and haunting, this is an
unforgettable story about the spirit of history and the individual
fates that make up the whole-the entwinements of the past and their
unshakable hold on the present.
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