Homecoming - Bernard Schlink

Homecoming - Bernard Schlink (2008)
As a boy, Peter comes across a novel that tells about a soldier returning after the war, only to be rejected on his doorstep. Throughout his life in post war Germany, he searches for the novelist, believing the tale to be a work of non-fiction.

In his adult life, he also looks for clues about his father, believed to be dead in an explosion after a brief rendevous with his mother.

I liked the beginning, I felt it was going somewhere, but it felt to me like one of those books written on one good idea, that can't follow through and accomplish the deed. I just wanted it to end, and was ready to discard it 3/4 of the way through. A paltry 1/5.