The Book of Daniel

As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Dan iel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietn am War. A stunning fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, The Book of Daniel is an intensely movin g tale of martyrdom and the search for meaning.

• author: E.L. Doctorow