"Captures the human drama at the core of the [war crimes] trials . . . Neuffer manages to convey in intimate and sometimes painful detail the trauma of [the victims'] personal ordeals and the importance of their search for justice . . . Prodigious research and excellent reporting."—The New York Times Book Review

"Each story [is] a kind of window on the human comedy, host to a parade of lovers, gangsters and apostates . . . Singer, of course, was looking back on his childhood from an irreversible exile; he knew that the shadow of the Holocaust would fall across even the sunniest of these tales. The strong, vital element of all his fiction, which animates this book as well, was his refusal to let the annihilation step backward into the past. He grants his father and mother and neighbors the full dignity and complexity of their doomed lives, and in doing so, makes them briefly live again."—Adam Kirsch, The Washington Post Book World