Set in the 1990s when Anna, an innocent Harvard senior, falls hard for Christoph, a beautiful German exchange student, [this] novel explores a life-changing seduction, and how the traumas of the past, particularly the aftershocks of fascism, echo and reverberate through the present. Along with Anna's perspective as she travels back and forth to Germany to deepen her relationship with the elusive Christoph, key chapters follow both of their grandfathers during the war, as Clark ... evokes their contrasting experiences, whose implications bear on the present story.
