Child of the Light: Book One of the Madagascar Manifesto

This remarkable book follows the lives of three friends, Solomon Freund, a Jew, Erich Wiesser, his Catholic neighbor and âbrother in bloodâ, and Miriam Rathenau, whom both boys love, and who happens to be niece of Germanyâs foreign minister Walther Rathenau. From their youth helping at their parentsâ co-owned tobacco shop, the boys find their relationship strained, as was all of Germany, by the growth of the National Socialist party and the descent of Germany into a Nazi hell.