In a Dark Wood - Marcel Moring

Jacob Noah spent three years "hiding in a hole in a bog" from the Nazis. When he emerged from his hiding place after the war, his father, mother and brother were dead and their shoe shop had been turned into an Aryan Bookshop. Over the next thirty five years he turns what remained of the shoe shop into a lingerie empire, then a department store and property portfolio known throughout the country, he also marries, fathers three daughters, gets lovers, gets separated. Still, Jacob's mercantile rampage does nothing to alleviate the aching void, nothing to cure the pain and desolation of the loss he suffered. Apart from the initial ...  Read the complete review