I quite enjoy epistolary novels – as Margot Livesey (one of my favorite authors) says in her introduction to Address Unknown, these books limit what the reader knows but at the same time, convey more information that we might otherwise have in a traditional narrative. Address Unknown is a novella in letters, taking place over the course of a year beginning in 1932. (The book was originally published in 1938.) Two men, close friends and business partners, exchange letters as one, who is Jewish, remains in the US, and the other (who is not Jewish) returns to live in Germany. You can imagine how this goes, at least partly. It’s a chilling, horrific story — and is not only a warning cry about the atrocities of World War Two, but the ones we as humans continue to allow and perpetuate.