A darkly comic novel with the moral power of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader about love in the shadows of history.
Born in New York in 1963, historian Hester Rosenfeld―very American and marginally Jewish―goes to Munich to research the life of Heinrich Falk and becomes his mistress. Born in Berlin in 1943, raised in the ruins of defeat by a generation of "murderers and cowards," Professor Falk is neither infamous nor famous―he is simply the German Everyman. Hester believes his life story could make for an important contemporary historical document―kitchen table history. Heinrich is married (four times, twice to his current wife) and has four daughters. But madly in love with Hester, adultery is nothing new to him. As he assists her in her note-taking―about him and his family, about German history―she often suspects Heinrich is covering up something. Was his brother really a Werewolf, a Nazi militiaman who vowed to continue fighting after the war's end? What kind of gas company did his mother work for? And what exactly did his father do during those years?"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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