Moths (H/C)

Opening in the 1930S, This Stunning Novel Tells the Parallel Stories of a Father and Son Whose Lives Take the Reader Through Critical Moments of Mid 20Th-Century European History, in Miniature - From Wwii and Its Aftermath to the Siberian Gulag. Alongside Its Nabokovian Precision and Dark Undercurrents, It Has an Unexpected Black Humour As Well As a Fantastic Jazz Sub-Plot. a Self-Indulgent Dutch Businessman Finds Himself Caught Up in the Liberation of Auschwitz, Imprisoned As a Spy by the Liberating Russian Army, Shipped Off to Minsk and Moscow to Play in a Bizarre Jazz Band, and Then, When Jazz Becomes 'Decadent' Once More, to the Gulag, Where His Estranged Son, a Long-Distance Runner, Finally Catches Up With Him...Meanwhile, the Boy (Called Dolboy, Because He Looks Like a Tiny Blond Doll) is Brought Up by His Doting Childless Aunt in the Flat Farmlands of East Holland, Post-War. Wherever He Goes, He Runs, Past Dark Forests, Foxgloves, Fields and Birch Trees. One Day His Running Take