The Age of Wonders

An Israeli returns to Austria, thirty years after the Holocaust, to understand his own father’s fate. “A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous.”—Times Literary Supplement

The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn ...