Description
Spanning two very different decades—from the Nazi concentration camp of Dora-Mittelbau to the coast of central Florida on the eve of Apollo 11 lifting off—here is a story that explores the intersections between the terror of the Third Reich’s V-2 rocket program and the wonderment of landing on the moon.
Eli Hessel, a brilliant young Jewish mathematician, finds himself deep beneath a mountain where he is forced to build Nazi rockets in a concentration camp. When he is finally freed, he immigrates to New York, studies astrophysics, and is recruited by the Kennedy Space Center. As America turns to the moon and cheers for rockets that lance the sky, Eli is swallowed up by the past and must cope with brutal memories he thought were safely buried. In the Shadow of Dora is a chilling novel of real life events—it explores a largely unknown story of the Holocaust, the meaning of secrets, and how the past influences the present. If we clamp down images of horror, will they always ignite and rise up on us?
