A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis, Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down..
Genres
- Humorous stories
- Grandfathers
- Novelists
- Fiction
- Jewish families
- Literature
- Americans
- World War, 1939-1945
- Young men
- Domestic fiction
- History
- Luftangriff
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung
- Reise
- World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
- Amerikaner
- Familie
- Juden
- Stetl
- Fiction, coming of age
- Fiction, humorous
- Ukraine, fiction
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Authors, fiction
- Grandparents, fiction
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, jewish
- Jews, fiction
- Judenvernichtung
- Roman
- Fiction, humorous, general
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Vergangenheitsbewa ltigung
- Fiction, historical
- Literature and fiction (general)
- Littérature américaine
- Traductions françaises
- Roman américain
- Judenvernichtung <Motiv>
- Bildungsromans
- Jewish fiction
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