Title: Le Cinquième fils
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1983
Description: When a Holocaust survivor's son discovers that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, the son also discovers that the Nazi is still alive. What begins as a quest for his father's love becomes a reenactment of the past, as the son sets out to complete his father's act of revenge.
Subjects: Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Children of Holocaust survivors in fiction, Children of Holocaust survivors, Germany in fiction, Americans in fiction, Americans, Ex-Nazis, Ex-Nazis in fiction, Translations into English, Translations from French, World War, 1939-1945, English fiction, Genocide, French fiction, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Father-son relationship, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, jewish, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction
Places: Germany, United States