Searching for a mother, a novel. And yet more than a novel. A research into the present and past across three generations and places: grandfather, mother, daughter. There is the grandfather on the night of his daughter's birth. There is his daughter, who travels to Bosnia 16 years later. Finally, there is the narrator, who follows her mother many years later. Zeller's polyphonic research is a family novel, a travel novel, a memoir. A book to marvel at, a literary surprise. And a great >>life narrator<< who makes some people think of Annie Ernaux.