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DEBUT Birnbaum, the former director of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, was inspired by his grandfather's life to craft an absorbing first novel about World War II. At the outset of the war, Stockholm rivaled Casablanca as a bastion of political intrigue. Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist who writes under the pen name Dr. B., has come there as a refugee with his young family. He survives by writing for a Swi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More