Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I have a memory of my grandfather, Leon, from the 1960s, when he was living in Paris with his wife, Rita. They lived in a two-bedroom apartment with a tiny kitchen on the third floor of a worn nineteenth-century building. There was a silence about the past, and Leon encouraged me in the direction of the law.
#2 I had many happy memories of visiting my grandparents’ house, but it never seemed to me to be a place of joy. I could sense the heaviness and tension of foreboding and silence around the rooms.
#3 I sat with my mother in her bright living room in north London, two old briefcases before us. They were crammed with Leon’s photographs and papers, newspaper clippings, telegrams, passports, identity cards, letters, notes.
#4 I left London for Lviv in late October, during a gap in my work schedule, to represent Georgia in The Hague against Russia. The plane flew over the Ukrainian spa town of Truskavets, through a cloudless sky, so we could see the Carpathian Mountains and Romania.