Der Koffer

Letters, documents, photos, a whole suitcase full. They are what Frances Stonor Saunders is left with by her father Donald; but are they the same?
that shed light on his lifelong secretiveness?
As a child, the son of a Polish-Jewish petroleum engineer is caught up in the mills of history. During the Second World War, the family is expelled from Romania and Donald ends up in a British boarding school after spending time in Turkey and Egypt. And then? It is a captivating, deeply moving exploration that Saunders undertakes - and which ultimately leads to the question of whether it is better to open Pandora's box - or to forget.