| About the Book
Two boys grow up during World
War II, Gerard in New England, Morgen in Berlin. They live parallel
lives; their families experience similar changes, similar suffering.
The world says they are enemies. What makes an enemy? Why are people
designated as enemies? If these two later met, what would they think
of each other?
WWII and the Hitler’s elimination of the undesirables alter the
daily lives of both boys immeasurably. Morgen's father, a pacifist
doctor, deserts his own troops and escapes with a Viennese friend,
himself a marked man. The parallel situations of the two boys and
their families balance the two sides of the war. We see, not the
propaganda, but the real effects the war had on civilians in both
countries. We also see the 'forgotten' undesirables such as Gypsies,
homosexuals, blacks and Japanese-Americans. Woven into all these
lives is the quest for sanity and freedom from hatred.
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