Sources of Life

This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family narrated by the grandson Robert When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949 he becomes part of the German economic miracle by producing garden gnomes Klaus Roberts father wants to become a writer He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert but the marriage doesnt work Both parents abandon the child and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighborss daughter Laura