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1945. At the end of the Second World War in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee trains to replace the boy. He makes her promise never to tell anyone, including her husband - still fighting on the Russian front - that the boy is not her own. Nobody will know the difference. 2008. Gregor Liedmann is a Jewish man now in his sixties. He's an old rocker who ran away from home, a trumpet player, a revolutionary stone-thrower left over from the 1968 generation. On a…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2013HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007380381
- Other · English · 2009HarperCollins Publishers · 9780060784720
- Other · English · 2009Fourth Estate/Harpercollins Publishers · 262 pages · 9780007314706
- Other · English · 2008Fourth Estate · 262 pages · 9780007192168
- Other · English · 2008Harper · 261 pages · 9780060784683
FictionFathers and sonsIdentity (Philosophical concept)PaternityMothers and sonsNew York Times reviewedFiction, historical, generalFathers and sons, fiction



