Father And I

The story spans nearly a hundred years. In Carlo Gebler''s early childhood, his relationship with his father, Ernest, was a disaster. A man of the left, Ernest''s politics had been ''hammered out in the nineteen thirties''. His early life as the son of a Jewish immigrant was spent working as a rat catcher in a cinema, snatching moments alone to educate himself, but the one with the literary talen...