The sandbeetle: A novel

by Zina Rohan

Leo Beck, a Jewish child refugee, is sent alone to London in the early 1930s. A young man when war eventually breaks out, he is caught up in a wave of anti-German feeling and involved in a voyage of terror and brutal self-discovery. Rohan is also writing here about the nature of belonging.

310 pages, Hardcover

Reviews

[Little BigGirl]

Starts well and a good story, the ww2 part makes you think. But then it speeds past several years, annoyingly, to get to the end.