Hester Among The Ruins: A Novel

The Story

'Born in New York in 1963, historian Hester Rosenfeld - very American and marginally Jewish - goes to Munich to research the life of Heinrich Falk and becomes his mistress. Born in Berlin in 1943, raised in the ruins of defeat by a generation of 'murderers and cowards,' Professor Falk is neither infamous nor famous - he is simply the German Everyman. Hester believes his life story could make for an important contemporary historical document kitchen table history.