A new novel by the author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” An ordinary boy, Pierrot, lives in Paris. His mother is French and his father is German. Dad went through the First World War and was forever mentally traumatized. And although not everything is fine at Piero’s home, he is happy. His parents adore him, he has a best friend, Anshel, with whom he communicates in sign language. But this cozy world is about to disappear. It's the second half of the 1930s. And soon Piero will find himself in Austria, in a wonderful house on the top of a mountain. Pierrot will now be called Peter, and he will have a new adult friend. A new friend has a brush mustache, a beautiful lady named Eva and the smartest German shepherd Blondie. He is kind, smart and very energetic. Only for some reason the servants are scared to death of him, and the guests who are in the house talk about the greatness of Germany and that it’s time for all of Europe to know about it. A piercing, disturbing and incredibly in tune with our time novel, which has become, in fact, a continuation "The Boy in Striped Pajamas", although the characters are completely different.