''Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.'' Philippe Sands
''Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.'' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine
''As riveting as the fiction the Wolffs themselves have published, and deeply affecting.'' Newsweek
In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family''s history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twenty-three, publishing Franz Kafka, -ile Zola, Anton Chekhov and others whose books would be burned by the Nazis. In 1933, Kurt and his wife Helen fled to France and Italy, and later to New York, where they would bring books including Doctor Zhivago, The Leopard and The Tin Drum to English-speaking readers.
Meanwhile, Kurt''s son Niko, born f
