Keep saying their names
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Bagguley, Matt, 1971- translator.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages
Status
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis. The man who sent Komissar to his death was one of Norway's vilest traitors, Henry Oliver Rinnan, a Nazi double agent who set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and transformed the cellar into a torture chamber for resisters, a place to be avoided and feared. That is until Komissar's own son, Gerson, and his young wife, Ellen, take up residence in the house after the war. While their daughters spend a happy childhood playing in the same rooms where some of the most heinous acts of the occupation occurred, the weight of history threatens to pull the couple apart.
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