When Frederick wakes up in his hospital bed after a traumatic car crash there is a disturbing rift in his memory. He is haunted by images of a dark-haired woman with intense eyes and by the knowledge that somehow this woman holds the key to his missing past. Will solving the puzzle offer him peace at last, or will it simply stir up a pain that can never fully heal? An act of thoughtless racism causes ripples across generations; an overheard conversation points the way to new love; a young boy's struggle to support his family offers the perfect solution for lonely soldiers' wives. These are stories of struggle and enlightenment, and of the perseverance of human compassion even in the cruelty of war. They turn an irreverent humour on the dark side of communism and, as in the case of Frederick, they show us the moving and indelible ways in which the past will for ever act upon the present. Arthur Friedberg is Dutch, of Polish descent. Born in the north-east of Poland, in 1941 he...

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