In this haunting, poetic, and very contemporary novel, Elie Wiesel introduces us to a young American-born man, the son of Holocaust survivors who yearns to penetrate his father's present silence and his secret past. It is a journey that will take him into the darkest hours of the Nazi terror, the ancient passages of the Talmud, and the office of a businessman in modern-day Germany...where his extraordinary fate awaits him.