“A must-read for a new understanding of the Holocaust in Vienna and why a Jewish family would not let itself be uprooted despite the city’s dark past.”
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Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
"Sparkling ... The tone is mellifluous throughout ... Multi-award-winning Italian author Franzosini's English-language debut is an irresistible, elegantly conceived example of biographical fiction."