
They were privileged people, cultured and German to the core, a family that has been in Germany 300 years. But that couldn't save them from Hitler. The clan will struggle to come to terms with a past replete with large ancestral homes, a present filled with impoverished relatives...

One of America's most acclaimed literary talents delivers a deeply moving, memoir-oriented novel about a German-Jewish family's attempts to resettle in the aftermath of World War II.