Disguise
By: Hugo Hamilton.
Publisher: Fourth Estate; Fourth Estate (GB)
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780007192168
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Paternity -- Fiction.; Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.; Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 single day spent gathering fruit in an orchard outside Berlin with family and friends, Gregor looks back over his life, sifting through fact and memory in order to establish the truth. What happened on that journey south in the final days of the war? Why did his grandfather Emil disappear, and why did the Gestapo torture his uncle Max? Here, in the calmness of the orchard, along with his ex-wife Mara and son Daniel, Gregor tries to unlock the secret of his past.--BOOK JACKET.