A blend of lyrical memoir and sober history, “The Glassmaker's Son” recounts the author's decades-long quest to uncover the world his father left behind in Nazi Germany. Along the way he made a series of surprising discoveries about his family, who were major players in the Bavarian glassmaking industry before they were nearly annihilated in the Holocaust.
The book weaves together the diabolical history of German antisemitism with poignant memories of Kupfer's growing up in suburban Connecticut, his yearning to get closer to his distant father, and his struggles with his sexuality. At heart, “Glassmaker” is about a search for identity — the identity of the author's soft-spoken, inscrutable father and of himself.
“Glassmaker" was published in November by Amsterdam Publishers in the Netherlands.
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