First printing.
The author's first novel, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Macavity awards, set in rural Maine near a former World War II German Prisoner-of-War logging camp.
40 years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall makes it possible for East Germans to travel, a man arrives in the U.
S.
to try to learn the details of his brother's death - supposedly by drowning after an escape attempt - and a woman who worked in the camp occasionally while a young girl becomes caught up in the search for the long hidden truth after her brother is killed.
SIGNED on the title page.
A NY Times Notable Book, which called this "a stark stunningly well written first novel.
" 323 pp, Fine in fine dust jacket.