Who was David Weiser?

Set in the Polish city of Gdansk in 1957, it tells the mysterious disappearance of a 13-year-old Jewish boy at the end of that year's unforgettable—and dangerous—summer vacation. One of Weiser's classmates at the time, the narrator recalls the strange events that took place some thirty years earlier. Even at such a young age, Weiser was surrounded by mysticism: a kind of magician, endowed with supposedly supernatural powers and capable of feats incomprehensible to his peers at the time. Part thriller, part parable, this nostalgic novel will transport you back to the mysteries of childhood.