Arno Geiger

Arno Geiger's father was never an easy man to know. Born into a farming family in Austria and conscripted into World War II as a seventeen-year-old "schoolboy soldier", he was later reticent about the past. When he developed Alzheimer's, Arno realized he was not going to ask for help...In this intelligent, moving, and often funny memoir, he recounts his journey to get to know his fathe at last.