The Deadwood beetle
By: Mylène Dressler.
Publisher: BlueHen Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: College teachers -- Retirement -- Fiction.; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.; Dutch Americans -- Fiction.; Retirees -- Fiction.; Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop. He hasn't seen it since he was a boy in Holland, but he vividly remembers the last time he did. Only Tristan knows the painful truth behind the scrawled - and misunderstood - inscription on the bottom of the table, and he embarks on a scheme to acquire it from the shop owner, Cora Lowenstein, who insists it's not for sale.".

"But as their lives become entangled, Tristan must make a choice. Can he tell Cora the truth? Begun in deceit, their relationship and Tristan's salvation hinge on his willingness to confront and finally confess the terrible secrets of his family's past."--BOOK JACKET.