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Author:
Menachem Kaiser
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
March 16, 2021
The story of a man's quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland, and of the entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows.
What The Reviewers Say
Menachem Kaiser’s Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure tells a twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story. It’s a weird story that gets weirder.
Kaiser is a sober, responsible narrator, concerned with the moral implications of his quest and the persistent challenges of separating fact from fiction. Though it only illuminates a small portion of the enormity that was the Nazi genocide, Plunder is an account that’s undeniably worthy of its subject..
... a book in which both my grandparents would recognize themselves.
... not an easy book to categorize because it shuttles seamlessly between history, travelogue, and commentary. Ultimately, this is a personal narrative – a gifted writer’s effort to understand his grandfather’s life – that turned out to be far richer and more varied than the author ever envisioned when he undertook this journey. And it makes for a fascinating and thought-provoking read..
