Maes, N: Dead Man's Float

Seventy-year-old Nathan Gelder's recent stroke hasdone little to appease the obsessivedreams and memories of hisparentsboth of whom died in the Holocaustthat haunt him relentlessly.While he remains in aparalyzedstate, questionsof his involvement in the deathof rock starLeonard Skye Barvis begin to surface. Riots are staged worldwideand the media descends on him and his family. This effortless juxtapositon ofone of history's darkest episodes with late 20th-century popular culture comes to a poignant endwith shattering resultsin this haunting novel."