Offbeat, irreverent and subversive a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, SubmarineThe best book Ive read in the past year . . . A masterpiece Financial TimesA slippery marvel [and] a quixotic voyage into the heart of 20thcentury darkness ObserverPoignant and profound, comic and unconventional and genuinely, searingly meaningful The New York TimesJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his greatgrandfather, Siegfried an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home.The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life an unpublished, twothousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it. And, as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself, it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew...Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world, from Berlin to Ankara, New York, Glasgow and eventually London a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste. On the trail of one jolly grandpa with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledge of poison gases, Joe Dunthorne is forced to confront the uncomfortable questions that lie at the heart of every family. Can we...

Binding: Hardback;220 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 546 g; Dimensions: 145 x 224 x 31

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