Book description
On February 16,1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom
she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided to her
that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely. This is
the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding survived to
become a man. Peter arrives in America, the land of self-creation; he
flourishes in business, marries, and raises a family. He thrives in the
present, plans for the future, and has no past. But when The Diary of a
Young Girl is published to worldwide acclaim and gives rise to bitter
infighting, he realises the cost of forgetting. Based on extensive
research of Peter van Pels and the strange and disturbing life Anne
Frank's diary took on after her death, this is a novel about the memory
of death, the death of memory, and the inescapability of the past.
