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A young mother, her two-year-old son killed in the bombing of Berlin in 1945, is consoled when her father replaces the dead child with a foundling from a refugee train who grows up believing himself to be Gregor Liedmann until he reaches his sixties and embarks on a quest to unlock the secrets of his past.

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  • "A young mother, her two-year-old son killed in the bombing of Berlin in 1945, is consoled when her father replaces the dead child with a foundling from a refugee train who grows up believing himself to be Gregor Liedmann until he reaches his sixties and embarks on a quest to unlock the secrets of his past."@en
  • "A young mother, her two-year-old son killed in the bombing of Berlin in 1945, is consoled when her father replaces the dead child with a foundling from a refugee train who grows up believing himself to be Gregor Liedmann until he reaches his sixties and embarks on a quest to unlock the secrets of his past."
  • "En 1945, Marie Liedmann fuit Berlin après la mort de son fils Gregor dans un bombardement. Dans le sud du pays elle rejoint son père, Emil. Sur la route de l'exil celui-ci repère un orphelin du même âge que Gregor, et le confie à Maria en lui recommandant de le faire passer pour son fils. Soixante ans plus tard, Gregor interroge sa judéité, que Maria lui a toujours dissimulée.--[Memento]."
  • "Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century. 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 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. In his first novel since the best-selling memoir The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton has created a truly compelling story of lost identity, and a remarkable reflection on the ambiguity of belonging."
  • "Un roman centré sur la quête identitaire d'un homme, qui, à l'adolescence, apprend qu'il a été recueilli par la femme qu'il pensait être sa mère, à l'issue de la Seconde guerre mondiale, dans Berlin, dévasté par les bombardements. Le récit alterne fréquentes analepses, qui éclairent le passé de cet homme, et présent diégétique - une partie de campagne, au cours de laquelle Gregor et son ex-épouse retrouvent leur fils et des amis communs, conviés à la cueillette des pommes."
  • "Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century."@en

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  • "Roman irlandais"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Roman irlandais de langue anglaise"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en

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  • "Legenden Roman"
  • "Legenden : Roman"
  • "Comme personne roman"
  • "Het leven van de ander : roman"
  • "Comme personne : roman"
  • "Disguise"@en
  • "Disguise"
  • "La maschera"
  • "La maschera"@it

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