Santiago H Amigorena

"A critical sensation in France, Santiago Amigorena re-imagines his Jewish grandfather--a Polish immigrant in Argentina in the 1930s--and the tragic events that defined his life as he fails to rescue his mother and siblings from a Warsaw ghetto in this novel about identity, guilt, and the unshakable power of love"-- Provided by publisher. In Buenos Aires, the afternoon of September 13, 1940 was rainy and the war in Europe so remote that one might...

"In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man ... battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams ... [posing] the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?"--Container sleeve.

After a decade abroad, Jean learns of his father's failing health and returns to run the family vineyard with his strong-willed sister, Juliette, and his responsible younger brother, Jeremie. As four seasons and two harvests go by in picturesque Burgundy, the siblings have to reinvent their relationship and learn to trust each in this tender and finely-textured saga.