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Life must have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to anticipate, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. Fixated on the crimes which were committed against his people, but struggling to live among them, Max moves away, marries out, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering where no-one, least of all the Jews, is a lot interested. But it's a life. Or it appears a life until Max's long-disregarded childhood friend, Manny Washinsky, is released from prison. Little by little, as he picks up his old reference to Manny, trying to comprehend the circumstances where he made a Buchenwald of his own home, Max is drawn into Manny's genealogy - above all his brother's tragic love affair with a woman who's half German. But more than that, he's drawn back to the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and really should be, no release. There exists wild, angry, even uproarious laughter in this novel, but it is laughter on the edge. It's the comedy of cataclysm.
