I deemed this novel definitively unfinished on 27 January, 2011, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
During the years in which the novel grew in my life, I asked many people for help and opinions.
There are so many of you, and I’ve been pestering you for so many years, that I’m terrified I’ll leave out someone’s name. So I would instead like to once again count on your generosity as I make a generic acknowledgement in which, I hope, each and every one of you will see yourselves included and reflected.
I am deeply grateful to you all.