Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

by Joe Dunthorne

In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this subversive family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis.

When Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their harrowing escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. What he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982180757
• ISBN13: 9781982180751
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"