The People in the Photo Author:Helene Gestern, Emily Boyce (Translator), Ros Schwartz (Translator) The three figures in the photograph are frozen forever, two men and a woman bathed in sunlight . . . — The chance discovery of a newspaper image from 1971 sets two people on the path to learning the disturbing truth about their parents’ pasts. — Parisian archivist Hélène takes out a newspaper advert calling for informa... more »tion about her mother, who died when she was three, and the two men pictured with her in a photograph taken at a tennis tournament at Interlaken in 1971. Stéphane, a Swiss biologist living in Kent, responds: his father is one of the people in the photo. Letters and more photos pass between them as they embark on a journey to uncover the truth their parents kept from them. But will the relics of the past fill the silences left by the players?« less