In a quiet corner of suburban America, retired detective Emil Janowitz has crafted a comfortable life bound by decades of carefully woven lies. For nearly forty years, he shielded his loving wife from the truth of his past: how a young man who endured the unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau. When an unexpected letter arrives, it shatters the fragile façade, unleashing long-buried demons and silenced memories.
Emil is drawn back into the ruins of his past, navigating a gripping landscape of guilt, loss, unrelenting shadows, and the confrontation with darkness he thought he had forever buried. Embark on an emotional odyssey that explores human courage and resilience in the face of pervasive evil in this evocative tale of redemption, justice, and the imperative to remember. Each step lifts the weight of silence, forcing a reckoning with the enduring echoes of history.
Second edition.
In a quiet corner of suburban America, retired detective Emil Janowitz has crafted a comfortable life bound by decades of carefully woven lies. For nearly forty years, he shielded his loving wife from the truth of his past: how a young man who endured the unimaginable horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau. When an unexpected letter arrives, it shatters the fragile façade, unleashing long-buried demons and silenced memories.
Emil is drawn back into the ruins of his past, navigating a gripping landscape of guilt, loss, unrelenting shadows, and the confrontation with darkness he thought he had forever buried. Embark on an emotional odyssey that explores human courage and resilience in the face of pervasive evil in this evocative tale of redemption, justice, and the imperative to remember. Each step lifts the weight of silence, forcing a reckoning with the enduring echoes of history.
Second edition.