A superior man, alone and unhappy

A book we read quite easily. Full of interesting details about the architecture of the late 19th century or entomology for example. A high level of writing and an original construction of history. A sense of anxiety and expectation, however, is present throughout the book until the dramatic explanation of a broken childhood by racial persecution and in search of a painful past. The protagonist, very skilled, gives the impression of a great loneliness, an inability to relate to others, with a life conditioned by the memory of tearing his family and insistent search of what had Spent the moment and the terrible fate of his relatives.