The third part of the Danzig Trilogy, a large and inventive novel in three books, told by different narrators. It follows the lifelong, uneasy friendship of two men, Eddi Amsel and Walter Matern, from childhood on the Vistula through the Nazi years and into postwar Germany. A dog, passed down through the story, links the characters and echoes the theme of loyalty and betrayal. The book mixes satire, folklore and bitter history to ask how ordinary people lived with and forgot what happened.