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It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.

Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.

Roman «Oblomov» (1859), zavoevav ogromnyj uspeh, sprovociroval burnye spory. Storonniki odnogo mnenija traktovali oblomovshhinu kak simvol kosnosti Rossii s «sovershenno inertnym» i «apatichnym» glavnym geroem romana. Drugie videli v romane filosofskoe osmyslenie russkogo nacional'nogo haraktera, osobogo nravstvennogo puti, protivostojashhego suete vsepogloshhajushhego progressa.