Go down to silence : a novel – G.K. Belliveau

Description

Jacob Horowitz returns to Belgium with his estranged son to visit a friend from his days in the underground.

In this fast-paced, vivid historical account, set alternately in war-torn Europe and today’s United States, an aging Holocaust survivor attempts reconciliation with his youngest son, with his past, and with himself..

Jacob Horowitz, a worn and bitter business tycoon, has never spoken to anyone about his experience of Nazi persecution during World War II – not even his recently deceased wife, Liza.
Suddenly stricken with terminal cancer, the aging Jew receives an invitation from his old friend Pierre, a Gentile Christian and former Belgian underground operative, to pay him one last visit in Belgium.

Jacob accepts, and determines to take along his estranged son Isaac. In this fast-paced, vivid historical account set alternately in war-torn Europe and today’s United States, the consequences of war become clear. Momentous events push the hardened Horowitz toward reconciliation with his youngest son, with his past, with God, and with himself.

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