Coming of age in 1960s Paris, Bernard Applebaum exists in the hazy shadow of the Holocaust and on the electric cusp of the French New Wave. The narrator of Wide Awake can be found as he wanders the city streets in search of signs of his father, who was deported by the Nazis in 1942. Bernard's chance encounter with a former acquaintance who has become filmmaker Francois Truffaut's assistant leads to a spot as an extra on the set of Jules and Jim - setting into motion a series of discoveries and lost memories that crack open a hidden past.
- ISBN10 1595587012
- ISBN13 9781595587015
- Publish Date 20 January 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The New Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 198
- Language English