Fifty years ago, a German student came to Los Angeles to study and later committed suicide. Fifty years later, her German-based brother visited Dina Metzger in Los Angeles, who was her teacher, to ask what she knew about her.What resulted from that alliance is this novella, a work of fiction that is not fiction, but rather a sustained unfolding of facts, an investigation into history, events and stories, that shows us how wounds dating back generations still affect us, with their striking similarity to the dark political drama of the present day.
"A brother bravely seeks, after fifty years, to uncover the truth about his sister's suicide. A dead woman demands to uncover the secret crimes of history and weapons that led to her death."Finally, a writer dedicated to memory and empathy, haunted by the echoes of Nazi Germany, dictatorial Chile, the first atomic bomb, and the enduring suffering of the Palestinian people in today's exhausted America, is not afraid to confront the past, warn us of the future, and deliver an elegy for the souls of the dead who refuse to be silent. What is the result of this meeting of voices? A haunting and poignant ghost story at the same time, of stormy proportions, and a captivating and masterful moral suspense novel.…
