After Author:Melvin Jules Bukiet From book jacket: — In 1945 the Allied Forces are trekking across Europe, pausing incidentally to free the Jews from Hitler's camps. Newly emerged from the ashes, three ex prisoners--a logician, a saint, and a schemer--come together. Led by nineteen-year-old Isaac Kaufman, this trio joins forces in survival to exploit the only industry up and... more » running in a crippled German town, the black market--until they discover and decide to steal a four foot cube; "Eighteen tons of golden ingots created from the fillings pried from the teeth of the Jews of Eastern Europe."
"A ferocious, animated ride through concentration camps and immediate postwar Germany... the maelstrom that is After... dares to refract a delicate subject through a prism and let the images shatter into layered reflections." --Tammie Bob, The Chicago Tribune« less