Whatever postmodernism is, it is neither dogmatic nor absolute. It is, if you will, dogmatically absolute in its rejection of whatever is dogmatic or absolute. But there's a final paradox at work in its pages, too. For one thing, there is almost no action in it. Things happen, of course.
Generations come and go.
Many members of the Kobra family become victims of the Holocaust. When he is 11, one of Kobra's uncles is shot to death by an Arrow Cross man in front of their apartment building on Pozsonyi Road. Having shot his uncle, the Arrow Cross man aims his pistol at the young Kobra but then, out of compassion for his youth, he walks away. Yet in spite of such momentous historical occurrences, the novel is remarkably action-free. It consists mostly of telling rather than showing.