<p><b>''That¿s what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again ¿ the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.¿</b><br><br>Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women.<br><br>Heard on a toboggan in the Austrian mountains, in the back seat of an overloaded Mini toiling through Europe, on a coal barge in Paris ¿ here are tales that take us from Hungary, Germany and Italy to France, England and Argentina, from the young actress in <i>fin de si¿e</i> Vienna to the 16-year-old schoolboy who disappeared for over 50 years. <i>My Disappearing Uncle</i> is a journey of discovery that explores the complicated dance between the present and the past.</p>