– What’s it feel like? Well. Very mild, as you say. If I’m watching the end of some new arts (Location 1591)
– Hi, Dad, I said, and we embraced. – … What’s that you’re reading? Some Jew? I turned my back on him and kept it turned. The book referred to was If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi … Not many months earlier my novel about the Holocaust, Time’s Arrow, had appeared, and I had been accused of anti-Semitism.5 What I didn’t want was another syllable of loose talk on this subject. So as I fixed my father’s drink, the gin, the white onions, I kept my head down and said something like: (Location 1612)
