"East Berlin, 1973: an 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father's friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard in the family cottage. The three older men have handcuffed the ex-Nazi to the bed and are interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit to his war crimes. . . . Becker keenly shows the tension between members of the Holocaust generation and their children, who are unable to understand the complexity of that nightmarish era of human history."-"Booklist"
" A] chilly, disquieting novel about historical slippage; about the seemingly...

Das Buch erzhlt eine Geschichte aus dem Ghetto whrend des Krieges. Es ist nicht eine Geschichte vom Widerstand, sondern von einem Heldentum ganz anderer Art; eine melancholisch-heitere, leise, eine kunstvolle komponierte Geschichte ist es, die ohne Phantasie und Menschlichkeit nicht denkbar wre und deren Held Jakob ein Lgner aus Barmherzigkeit ist.