A novel of memoirs, the action of which extends from the Nazi era to the present day. The parents of the Jewish boy Gamliel die in a concentration camp, but he is saved by his mother’s friend, singer Ilonka. He loses all his loved ones, his faith and even his name. Many years later, in New York, the “literary Negro” Gamliel learns about a dying Hungarian old woman. And he has an insane hope that this is Ilonka, with whom he had to part in 1956, during the Budapest uprising, suppressed by Soviet troops...