The German Money: A Novel

Three siblings come together when their cold, unemotional mother dies. They have each been left an inheritance, but it is very uneven. One son, Paul has been left the German money, $1 million of German reparation money, a gift as cynical as it is generous. He is suspicious about his mother's sudden death and decides to investigate. The siblings quarrel over money, and also visit their Alzheimer-riddled father in his nursing home, racked with guilt for abandoning him. Lev Raphael has written a novel in which the problems of a contemporary Jewish family find their roots in the unspeakable secrets of Holocaust survivors.