Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichei (Hardcover)

‘While my brother Arnold looked not just happy but important even when he was a baby, in most of the photos from my childhood I am either only partly visible or sometimes not really visible at all.’

A German family flees from the advancing Russian army in 1945, makes it to safety and begins to build a new life. But in the chaos of their escape their oldest son, Arnold, vanishes.

At the age of eight Arnold’s younger brother, the narrator of the story, is told the truth behind his disappearance: And now I began to understand that Arnold, my un-dead brother, was playing the leading role in the family, and I was just a supporting actor. The young brother watches his parents’ obsessive attempts to find their lost child as their desperate imagination leads them from a professor’s laboratory to a village shop. Finding Arnold is his parents’ dream. It is his brother’s worst nightmare.

Wickedly funny and profoundly touching with an utterly breathtaking conclusion, Lost is the gripping story of a broken family’s love as seen through the eyes of its youngest and most cynical member. It is an astonishing and utterly compelling work of fiction.

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