The romantic forested landscape of southwest Germany is the setting for the birth of a friendship that will haunt sixteenyearold Hans Schwarz for the rest of his life. Hans is Jewish the son of a doctor who is confident that the rise of the Nazis is only a temporary illness afflicting his beloved country. Hanss new classmate Konradin von Hohenfels is a dazzling young aristocrat whose mother keeps a portrait of Hitler on her dressingtable. Hans is immediately drawn to Konradin and thrilled when a close bond forms between them forged by common interests that set them apart from the other boys. But their loyalties are soon tested in ways they could not have imagined. Three decades later from the vantage point of New York City Hans once again confronts this lifeshaping episode from his youth through a stunning revelation that he stumbles upon by chance. In its story of friendship undone by History Reunion combines the explosive compression of a fable with the emotional depth of an epic novel many times its length.