Book description
Off-beat, irreverent and subversive - a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine
'The best book I've read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times
'A slippery marvel [and] a quixotic voyage into the…
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Dunthorne isn't the only writer of German Jewish descent who has explored a bewildering and tragic family history, circa World War II. (His Jewish great grandfather was a scientist who—bizarrely—helped the Nazis develop things like the poison gas used in holocaust mass murders—thus his family came through relatively unscathed.) The bleakness and unfathomability are leavened by Dunthornes' hesitations and bumbling as a researcher, which he happily shares. Odd to find myself smiling so often at a story like this...and a welcome change.
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