Help me identify a book from some remembered fragments
November 6, 2015 5:41 AM Subscribe
The narrator relates how his parents met. In postwar Germany a soldier involved in criminal activities encounters a young German woman who is barely getting by (saves her from thugs?). Back home the soldier is a mid level mobster or account for the mob. The narrator as a young man fights with his father and leaves home.
He meets a rather charismatic man who educates him about life and literature. Math and books are involved. That is just the beginning of the story and I can't remember the rest. The time frame must be sixties or seventies, based on the age of the narrator. I don't read much non-genre fiction so it was probably a mystery, urban fantasy or science fiction novel.
He meets a rather charismatic man who educates him about life and literature. Math and books are involved. That is just the beginning of the story and I can't remember the rest. The time frame must be sixties or seventies, based on the age of the narrator. I don't read much non-genre fiction so it was probably a mystery, urban fantasy or science fiction novel.
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