''That-s what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again - the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.-
Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women.
Heard on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded Mini toiling through Europe, on a coal barge in Paris - here are tales that take us from Hungary, Germany and Italy to France, England and Argentina, from the young actress in fin de si-e Vienna to the 16-year-old schoolboy who disappeared for over 50 years. My Disappearing Uncle is a journey of discovery that explores the complicated dance between the present and the past.
