![]() ![]() We follow his work as a soldier tasked with kidnapping Nazi scientists before the Soviets can do the same his postwar life loving a broken, secretive Frenchwoman during her descent into madness and finally his days as a widower in a Florida retirement community, stalking a python that preys upon small pets.ĭespite heavy themes, delicious exchanges abound. Chabon learns his grandfather is a brilliant, physical man, equally capable of fashioning-and using-a garrote and carving wooden horses for his daughter. ![]() The novel unfolds in alternating threads showing different parts of his grandfather’s life, interspersed with scenes featuring the author as narrator. While parts of the book are narrated by the author, and his mother and grandmother are prominent characters, this work of “fictional nonfiction” clearly belongs to the old man. Specifically, stories told to him over the course of a week by his dying grandfather in 1989. ![]() Michael Chabon’s sparkling, richly satisfying new novel, Moonglow, is built from the stories of the so-called Greatest Generation. BookPage Top Pick in Fiction, December 2016 ![]()
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