Publisher's Synopsis
Abraham was an elderly man who fled from America to escape the Nazis in 1933. Now in 1944 his grandson Hansel who is still left behind in Berlin hiding from the Nazis manages to sneak out of the country and come to America so that he can live with his grandfather. But as an old man who is accustomed to drinking, gambling and womanizing he is not used to having a 12-year-old boy with him, and will find it a difficult adaption. As the grandfather and his grandson live together they learn that they will have to adapt to each other's personalities and also deal together with the legacy and the knowledge of the Holocaust as it is revealed to the world, bringing up issues of sexuality, faith, prejudice and discrimination.
