The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family's entanglement with twentieth-century historyAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Intensely involving ... a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a remarkable cast of characters' Financial Times'Rich, intriguing ... Maybe Esther calls to mind the itinerant style of W. G. Sebald' Guardian'Unflinchingly potent ... Revolutionaries, war heroes, teachers...