Revue de presse A sentimental, lively, and sad family saga spanning four generations (Publisher's Weekly )Epic, lyrical, compelling (USA Today )A sweeping, lush intergenerational novel about a family of German-Americans learning to live in 20th-century America (Oprah.com )There's plenty of storytelling charm on display here, with echoes of John Irving's humane zaniness (The New York Times ) Biographie de l'auteur Alex George studied law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris before moving from England to the United States in 2003. He now runs his own law firm in Columbia, Missouri.