A very long novel, where you never get bored. For it is a simple writing, built as a symphony, narrative time alternating with flashbacks of reminiscence, the particular fate of a woman being articulated to the history of an entire people. Rebecca, the daughter of German Jews who had emigrated to the United States during the war, narrowly escaped the murderous insanity of his father, driven mad by the extermination of his people and the humiliation he suffered in his country adoption.Elle then falls madly in love with a psychopath like that, who gives him a son, before she was forced to flee the violence. The second part of the novel evokes R. attempts to change of identity, and rebuild through the love of music embodied his son Zak, prodige.Elle pianist pays tribute to his deceased mother, which it was formerly passion. Remarried, having changed his name, yet she finally returns to the memory of his Jewish origins, as his son.
