Lourie, Richard

Joop, inspired by his long-absent brother's return to Amsterdam, confesses his memories of World War II to his sibling and reveals the dark secret that has shaped and scarred his entire life--that he was the one who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.

Joop, confronted by a brother he has not seen in sixty years, confesses a secret from his childhood that has scarred his entire life--that as a boy, in his desire to please his father, he set in motion the events that led the Nazis to the hiding place of Anne Frank and her family.

Woves personal narratives into a Tolstoyan epic of Russia in the twentieth century.