Disguise

By Hugo Hamilton

Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Berlin (germany), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Mothers and sons, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, Identity (Psychology), Jews

Description: A young mother, her two-year-old son killed in the bombing of Berlin in 1945, is consoled when her father replaces the dead child with a foundling from a refugee train who grows up believing himself to be Gregor Liedmann until he reaches his sixties and embarks on a quest to unlock the secrets of his past.