276 pages
English language
Published March 26, 2005 by Harper Perennial.
4 stars
(11 reviews)
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..
Subjects
- Americans -- Ukraine -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Ukraine -- Fiction
- Jewish families -- Fiction
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Novelists -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- Ukraine -- Fiction