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Roy Jacobsen: Borders [2016] paperback Condition:New Born to working-class parents andRobert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G. I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the arms of a Belgian nurse. Growing up with his mother in the lush forests of the Ardennes, Robert turns for guidance to his godfather, Markus Hebel, a Belgian who served in the German army in Russia. Breaking the silence around his painful past, Markus speaks of the consequences and madness of war of the son