Herr Isakowitz’s treasure

Piratförlaget, Sweden, 2014, 256 pages
Original Swedish title: Herr Isakowitz skatt
Genre: Narrative Non-Fiction


“My grandfather didn’t tell us much about his upbringing as a Jew in Germany in the 1920s and 30s, but one story I was told over and over again. The one about the treasure his father buried in the backyard before he disappeared. When the legend was passed on to my own son his immediate reaction was: if you have a family treasure you have to go and look for it. And that’s how my son, my father and I ended up on a treasure hunt in Poland.”

Spanning over the lives of five generations, from pre-war Germany to modern day Stockholm, this is a book like no other. Part heart-warming, hilariously funny roadtrip and part hard-hitting, true Holocaust story, Herr Isakowitz’s Treasure is a highly original journey into one of the darkest chapters of human history.