"His family killed by the Nazis, young Jacob Noah survived by hiding in a peat bog for three years. Decades later, Jacob Noah the successful but emotionally charred businessman runs his car off the road and plunges into a preternatural twilight journey through his hometown, the Dutch town of Assen. With a spectral figure calling himself the 'Jew of Assen' as his guide, Jacob observes the lives of his neighbors and family from a distance, contemplating the circumstances of his estrangement amid the pulsing morass of Assen on the beery, smoky evening before its annual TT motorcycle race. Among those observed is Marcus Kolpa, an intellectual whose ambivalence about his identity as a young European Jew may be as intense as his unpronounced love for Jacob's free-spirited daughter, Chaja.... Möring deploys a prodigious mélange of motifs and narrative styles (including concrete poetry and a brief comic-strip intermezzo), rendering this selection a virtuoso performance."—Booklist