The first-person narrator of the novel Homecoming, Peter Debauer, spent his holidays with his grandparents in Switzerland as a child, where he loved listening to his grandfather tell stories about events from military history, especially German history. He is also constantly disturbed by his father's life and his death, which no one close to him wants to talk about. Peter accidentally comes across a manuscript about a German returnee from the Russian front, who found his wife, child, and another man at home. However, the manuscript is unfinished, and Peter is obsessed with the desire to find out how the soldier's story ended. Following the trail of his search for answers, he also comes face to face with his own fate and identity. His story is excitingly intertwined with the soldier's ...