Leaving Fatherland

With scenes inspired by real events, Matt Graydon's Leaving Fatherland follows book-loving protagonist Oskar from his childhood in pre-war Germany to New York City and beyond, as he struggles to come to terms with his father's abuse.

Oskar Bachmann always imagined that giving his first lecture would bethe defining moment of his life.

It was, but not in the way he expected…

Growing up a misfit in pre-war Germany, a victim of his father’sbeatings, Oskar’s love of books is a constant comfort in a world turnedupside-down by conflict.

As a student, as a pilot in the brutal Luftwaffe during the Second WorldWar, in an unhappy marriage to an English bride, he finds himself returningover and over to the circumstances of his childhood. What was the source andcause of his father’s mistreatment? Could there have been more to it than hehad once believed?

Little did Oskar know that his first lecture at the University ofTübingen would ultimately lead to the end of a lifetime of searching… andfinally reveal the figure who had been controlling his life from a distance.

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