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Christian by faith and Jewish under the law, Katalin struggles with her dual identity in a Hungary caught up in World War II and its aftermath. She and Istvan, a Jew, fall in love. They struggle with their desire for marriage and to have a child in the midst of the increasing threat from violence. Istvan is deported to a concentration camp; four months later Kata and family seek refuge with Christian friends. Some are paralyzed by fear; others, acting on their faith, risk their lives to protect them. Even the welcomed liberation by the Russian Army poses its dangers. With the war over, the arduous attempts to survive in a devastated country and to assemble the family merge into a new struggle: power is shifted toward Communism and society is even more polarized than ever. Confronted with the resurgence of hatred, Katalin needs to come to terms with her faith and identity, to make sense of her survival out of the Holocaust and to find a direction for her life. In her soul-searching, she recalls Parsifal's quest for the Grail - a recurring motif in the novel - and knows that her own quest will continue.
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