This is a strange little book. It tell the story of three Jewish children in Germany, Louisa, Otto, and Rolf. Louisa is sent away from Germany just as it begins to be dangerous for Jews. She ends up in England and then the US. She gets involved with two despicable men before she reunites with Ot...
What was less usual was her awareness that, it being Monday, Rolf would be at work: she could, if she wished, go beyond the dozen words she normally felt it decent to speak down a telephone and try to talk to Louisa a little bit, to get some sense, perhaps, of whether Gustav was right to think Lo...