Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up in Oklahoma, but when one day a packet of yellowing letters arrives, Bilger goes to Germany to find out more. What follows is a literary suspense story: a tale of chance encounters and serendipitous discoveries in villages and dusty archives across Germany and France. Intimate and far-reaching, this is an extraordinary odyssey through the great upheavals of the past century.
Tracing one family's path through history's wreckage.