1970. Published as Mayflower Paperback. 333 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

The son, Christopher Wendelin, a member of Germany’s guilt-gnawed Hitler Youth generation, attempting under an assumed Hebrew name, on an Israeli kibbutz, the most extreme form of atonement for his father’s unforgivable sin. The father, Richard Wendelin, Germany’s leading film producer under the Hitler regime - the man who made the most infamous of all the anti-Semitic propaganda films of the Third Reich, "Ritual Murder," shown throughout Germany and especially to the concentration camp guards as a documentary of the murder of a Christian girl by Jews… These are the inevitable antagonists in this stunning novel of Germany’s post-war generation and its confrontation with the Nazi past - certainly one of the most controversial books to come out of Germany in years. Only after his abortive flight to Israel, at the riot-torn première of his father’s first film since the war - Richard Wendelin’s attempt to make a comeback in a Germany resisting reminders of its past - does Christopher first grasp the full complexity of the contemporary fathers unable to erase the past and sons who won’t even let them try…